Purdue University-Main Campus Student Population

How many students at Purdue? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 58,658 students have enrolled in Purdue University-Main Campus with 44,819 undergraduate and 13,839 graduate students.

By gender, 34,856 male and 23,802 female students are attending the school.

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

4,902 students are enrolled exclusively, and 16,751 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

Purdue University-Main Campus has a total of 58,658 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 44,819 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 13,839 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 34,856 male and 23,802 female students (the male-female ratio is 59:41) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 29,486 White, 1,627 Black, and 7,789 Asian students out of a total of 58,658 are attending at Purdue University-Main Campus. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Purdue University-Main Campus is quite diverse with a diversity index of 71.9% 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, Purdue has 610 students under 18 years old and 35 students over 65 years old. There are 47,937 students under 25 years old, and 10,721 students over 25 years old out of 58,658 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 610 students are younger than 18 and 16 students are older than 65. Purdue has 43,285 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,534 students aged 25 and over.

It has 4,652 graduate students aged under 25 and 9,187 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 Purdue University-Main Campus, 4,902 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 16,751 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,142 students who live in Indiana or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 3,760 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 44,819 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 3,096 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 6.91%.2,461 students have transferred in as full-time status and 635 students transferred in as part-time status.