Illinois State University Student Population and Demographics

Illinois State Student Population

There are 21,546 students including 19,107 undergraduate and 2,439 graduate students at Illinois State University for the academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 19,304 full-time and 2,242 part-time students with gender distribution of 8,998 male and 12,548 female students.

Illinois State University is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 1,302 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

Illinois State University has a total enrollment of 21,546 with a gender distribution of 41.76% male (8,998 students) and 58.24% female (12,548 students). There are 8,270 male and 10,837 female students in undergraduate school and 728 male and 1,711 female students are attending graduate school at Illinois State University.

Student Population By Gender
Illinois State University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	21,546	8,998	12,548
Undergraduate	19,107	8,270	10,837
Graduate	2,439	728	1,711
Full-time	19,304	8,211	11,093
Part-time	2,242	787	1,455

[Chart] Illinois State University 2025 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

Illinois State University has 19,304 full-time and 2,242 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 18,069 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 1,038 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 1,235 students are full-time and 1,204 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
Illinois State University
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	21,546	19,304	2,242
Undergraduate	19,107	18,069	1,038
Graduate	2,439	1,235	1,204
Men	8,998	8,211	787
Women	12,548	11,093	1,455

[Chart] Illinois State University Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At Illinois State University, 1,302 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 7,853 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 21,546 students.

In undergraduate schools, 7,950 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 1,205 students are attending some online courses.

2025 Distance Learning Enrollment
Illinois State University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	21,546	19,107	2,439
Online Exclusively	1,302	420	882
In Some Online Classes	7,853	7,530	323
Not In Online Classes	12,391	11,157	1,234

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

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at Illinois State University. There are 16 American Indian/Native American, 13,650 White, 2,775 Black/African American, 560 Asian, 2,895 Hispanic, 12 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 437 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
Illinois State University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	21,546	8,998	12,548
American Indian/Native American	16	8	8
Asian	560	250	310
Black/African American	2,775	1,134	1,641
Hispanic	2,895	1,193	1,702
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	12	4	8
White	13,650	5,682	7,968
Two More	840	352	488
Race Un-Known	185	85	100

[Chart] Illinois State UniversityRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

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

Age Distribution
Illinois State University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	21,546	19,107	2,439
Under 18	88	88	0
Age 18-19	7,783	7,783	0
Age 20-21	8,003	7,957	46
Age 22-24	3,243	2,474	769
Age 25-29	987	368	619
Age 30-34	454	135	319
Age 35-39	334	97	237
Age 40-49	462	139	323
Age 50-64	182	62	120
Over 64	10	4	6
Age Un-Known	0	0	0

[Chart] Illinois State University 2025 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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