Ball State University Student Population and Demographics

BSU Student Population

There are 21,089 students including 15,189 undergraduate and 5,900 graduate students at Ball State University for the academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 14,313 full-time and 6,776 part-time students with gender distribution of 7,300 male and 13,789 female students.

Ball State University is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 5,957 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

Ball State University has a total enrollment of 21,089 with a gender distribution of 34.62% male (7,300 students) and 65.38% female (13,789 students). There are 5,912 male and 9,277 female students in undergraduate school and 1,388 male and 4,512 female students are attending graduate school at Ball State University.

Student Population By Gender
Ball State University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	21,089	7,300	13,789
Undergraduate	15,189	5,912	9,277
Graduate	5,900	1,388	4,512
Full-time	14,313	5,536	8,777
Part-time	6,776	1,764	5,012

[Chart] Ball State University 2025 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

Ball State University has 14,313 full-time and 6,776 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 13,071 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 2,118 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 1,242 students are full-time and 4,658 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
Ball State University
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	21,089	14,313	6,776
Undergraduate	15,189	13,071	2,118
Graduate	5,900	1,242	4,658
Men	7,300	5,536	1,764
Women	13,789	8,777	5,012

[Chart] Ball State University Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At Ball State University, 5,957 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 7,416 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 21,089 students.

In undergraduate schools, 8,195 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 5,178 students are attending some online courses.

2025 Distance Learning Enrollment
Ball State University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	21,089	15,189	5,900
Online Exclusively	5,957	1,178	4,779
In Some Online Classes	7,416	7,017	399
Not In Online Classes	7,716	6,994	722

[Chart] Ball State University Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at Ball State University. There are 37 American Indian/Native American, 14,574 White, 2,289 Black/African American, 543 Asian, 1,876 Hispanic, 16 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 476 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
Ball State University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	21,089	7,300	13,789
American Indian/Native American	37	7	30
Asian	543	195	348
Black/African American	2,289	720	1,569
Hispanic	1,876	610	1,266
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	16	8	8
White	14,574	5,103	9,471
Two More	893	302	591
Race Un-Known	460	174	286

[Chart] Ball State UniversityRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

The following table and chart show the student enrollment by age distribution at Ball State University.

Age Distribution
Ball State University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	21,089	15,189	5,900
Under 18	1,244	1,242	2
Age 18-19	6,345	6,345	0
Age 20-21	5,259	5,157	102
Age 22-24	3,120	1,522	1,598
Age 25-29	2,172	401	1,771
Age 30-34	1,092	223	869
Age 35-39	675	110	565
Age 40-49	825	135	690
Age 50-64	335	51	284
Over 64	22	3	19
Age Un-Known	0	0	0

[Chart] Ball State University 2025 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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