Mississippi State Student Population and Demographics

Mississippi State Student Population

There are 22,226 students including 18,792 undergraduate and 3,434 graduate students at Mississippi State University for academic year 2019-2020. By attending status, there are 18,951 full-time and 3,275 part-time students with gender distribution of 11,133 male and 11,093 female students. Mississippi State University is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 1,785 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

Mississippi State University has a total enrollment of 22,226 with a gender distribution of 50.09% male (11,133 students) and 49.91% female (11,093 students). There are 9,500 male and 9,292 female students in undergraduate school and 1,633 male and 1,801 female students are attending graduate school at Mississippi State University.

Student Population By Gender
Mississippi State University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	22,226	11,133	11,093
Undergraduate	18,792	9,500	9,292
Graduate	3,434	1,633	1,801
Full-time	18,951	9,316	9,635
Part-time	3,275	1,817	1,458

[Chart] Mississippi State University 2020 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

Mississippi State University has 18,951 full-time and 3,275 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 17,113 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 1,679 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 1,838 students are full-time and 1,596 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
Mississippi State University
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	22,226	18,951	3,275
Undergraduate	18,792	17,113	1,679
Graduate	3,434	1,838	1,596
Men	11,133	9,316	1,817
Women	11,093	9,635	1,458

[Chart] Mississippi State University Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At Mississippi State University, 1,836 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 2,153 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 22,226 students. In undergraduate schools, 2,841 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 1,148 students are attending some online courses.

2020 Distance Learning Enrollment
Mississippi State University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	22,226	18,792	3,434
Online Exclusively	1,836	872	964
In Some Online Classes	2,153	1,969	184
Not In Online Classes	18,237	15,951	2,286

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

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at Mississippi State University. There are 123 American Indian/Native American, 15,998 White, 3,725 Black/African American, 338 Asian, 700 Hispanic, 17 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 261 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
Mississippi State University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	22,226	11,133	11,093
American Indian/Native American	123	50	73
Asian	338	209	129
Black/African American	3,725	1,585	2,140
Hispanic	700	352	348
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	17	8	9
White	15,998	8,187	7,811
Two More	433	202	231
Race Un-Known	104	59	45

[Chart] Mississippi State UniversityRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

Next table and chart show the student enrollment by age distribution at Mississippi State University.

Age Distribution
Mississippi State University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	22,226	18,792	3,434
Under 18	51	51	0
Age 18-19	5,440	5,439	1
Age 20-21	7,390	7,367	23
Age 22-24	5,252	4,340	912
Age 25-29	1,934	790	1,144
Age 30-34	857	300	557
Age 35-39	526	198	328
Age 40-49	516	200	316
Age 50-64	230	91	139
Over 64	30	16	14
Age Un-Known	0	0	0

[Chart] Mississippi State University 2020 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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