Lamar University Student Population

How many students at Lamar? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 17,772 students have enrolled in Lamar University with 8,184 undergraduate and 9,588 graduate students.

By gender, 6,190 male and 11,582 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (13,360 students on average - public Doctoral / Research University).

10,722 students are enrolled exclusively, and 4,507 students are enrolled in some online courses.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

Student Population by Gender

Lamar University has a total of 17,772 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 8,184 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 9,588 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 6,190 male and 11,582 female students (the male-female ratio is 35:65) are attending the school.

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Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 6,328 White, 5,143 Black, and 628 Asian students out of a total of 17,772 are attending at Lamar University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Lamar University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 74.4% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, Lamar has 61 students under 18 years old and 36 students over 65 years old. There are 6,226 students under 25 years old, and 11,247 students over 25 years old out of 17,473 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 61 students are younger than 18 and 13 students are older than 65. Lamar has 5,421 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 2,577 students aged 25 and over.

It has 805 graduate students aged under 25 and 8,670 students aged 25 and over.

*The age distribution is based on 2023-2024 enrollment data.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially those who want to continue education and work in the field. At Lamar University, 10,722 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 4,507 students are enrolled in some online courses.

10,067 students who live in Texas or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 655 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 8,184 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 776 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 9.48%.498 students have transferred in as full-time status and 278 students transferred in as part-time status.