Montana State University Student Population and Demographics

MSU Student Population

There are 17,135 students including 15,046 undergraduate and 2,089 graduate students at Montana State University for the academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 13,548 full-time and 3,587 part-time students with gender distribution of 8,879 male and 8,256 female students.

Montana State University is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 909 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

Montana State University has a total enrollment of 17,135 with a gender distribution of 51.82% male (8,879 students) and 48.18% female (8,256 students). There are 7,948 male and 7,098 female students in undergraduate school and 931 male and 1,158 female students are attending graduate school at Montana State University.

Student Population By Gender
Montana State University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	17,135	8,879	8,256
Undergraduate	15,046	7,948	7,098
Graduate	2,089	931	1,158
Full-time	13,548	7,196	6,352
Part-time	3,587	1,683	1,904

[Chart] Montana State University 2025 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

Montana State University has 13,548 full-time and 3,587 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 12,970 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 2,076 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 578 students are full-time and 1,511 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
Montana State University
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	17,135	13,548	3,587
Undergraduate	15,046	12,970	2,076
Graduate	2,089	578	1,511
Men	8,879	7,196	1,683
Women	8,256	6,352	1,904

[Chart] Montana State University Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At Montana State University, 909 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 2,540 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 17,135 students.

In undergraduate schools, 2,839 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 610 students are attending some online courses.

2025 Distance Learning Enrollment
Montana State University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	17,135	15,046	2,089
Online Exclusively	909	512	397
In Some Online Classes	2,540	2,327	213
Not In Online Classes	13,686	12,207	1,479

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

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at Montana State University. There are 283 American Indian/Native American, 14,010 White, 100 Black/African American, 179 Asian, 1,092 Hispanic, 13 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 531 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
Montana State University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	17,135	8,879	8,256
American Indian/Native American	283	100	183
Asian	179	69	110
Black/African American	100	64	36
Hispanic	1,092	504	588
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	13	6	7
White	14,010	7,373	6,637
Two More	898	453	445
Race Un-Known	141	78	63

[Chart] Montana State UniversityRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

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

Age Distribution
Montana State University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	17,135	15,046	2,089
Under 18	507	507	0
Age 18-19	5,795	5,795	0
Age 20-21	5,376	5,345	31
Age 22-24	2,786	2,288	498
Age 25-29	1,316	642	674
Age 30-34	555	211	344
Age 35-39	273	100	173
Age 40-49	338	88	250
Age 50-64	155	53	102
Over 64	34	17	17
Age Un-Known	0	0	0

[Chart] Montana State University 2025 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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