George Mason University Student Population

How many students at GMU? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 39,766 students have enrolled in George Mason University with 28,334 undergraduate and 11,432 graduate students.

By gender, 19,381 male and 20,385 female students are attending the school.

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

7,435 students are enrolled exclusively, and 20,269 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

George Mason University has a total of 39,766 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 28,334 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 11,432 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 19,381 male and 20,385 female students (the male-female ratio is 49:51) are attending the school.

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Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 13,432 White, 4,738 Black, and 7,817 Asian students out of a total of 39,766 are attending at George Mason University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

George Mason University is highly diverse with a diversity index of 80.6% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, GMU has 466 students under 18 years old and 107 students over 65 years old. There are 27,188 students under 25 years old, and 12,574 students over 25 years old out of 39,766 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 466 students are younger than 18 and 40 students are older than 65. GMU has 23,876 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 4,457 students aged 25 and over.

It has 3,312 graduate students aged under 25 and 8,117 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 George Mason University, 7,435 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 20,269 students are enrolled in some online courses.

386 students who live in Virginia or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 7,049 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 28,334 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 2,759 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 9.74%.2,140 students have transferred in as full-time status and 619 students transferred in as part-time status.