The University of Texas at El Paso Student Population

How many students at UTEP? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 25,039 students have enrolled in The University of Texas at El Paso with 21,118 undergraduate and 3,921 graduate students.

By gender, 11,230 male and 13,809 female students are attending the school.

It has fewer students compared to similar colleges (34,856 students on average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

2,333 students are enrolled exclusively, and 9,127 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

The University of Texas at El Paso has a total of 25,039 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 21,118 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 3,921 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 11,230 male and 13,809 female students (the male-female ratio is 45:55) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 1,208 White, 542 Black, and 224 Asian students out of a total of 25,039 are attending at The University of Texas at El Paso. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

The University of Texas at El Paso is not very diverse with a diversity index of 27.6% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution has limited racial and ethnic diversity in its student population.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, UTEP has 336 students under 18 years old and 23 students over 65 years old. There are 18,331 students under 25 years old, and 6,708 students over 25 years old out of 25,039 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 336 students are younger than 18 and 3 students are older than 65. UTEP has 17,407 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 3,711 students aged 25 and over.

It has 924 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,997 students aged 25 and over.

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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 The University of Texas at El Paso, 2,333 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 9,127 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,058 students who live in Texas or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 275 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 21,118 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,591 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.53%.1,049 students have transferred in as full-time status and 542 students transferred in as part-time status.