Southern New Hampshire University Student Population and Demographics

SNHU Student Population

There are 189,531 students including 164,423 undergraduate and 25,108 graduate students at Southern New Hampshire University for the academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 59,234 full-time and 130,297 part-time students with gender distribution of 68,517 male and 121,014 female students.

Southern New Hampshire University is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 183,892 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

Southern New Hampshire University has a total enrollment of 189,531 with a gender distribution of 36.15% male (68,517 students) and 63.85% female (121,014 students). There are 60,627 male and 103,796 female students in undergraduate school and 7,890 male and 17,218 female students are attending graduate school at Southern New Hampshire University.

Student Population By Gender
Southern New Hampshire University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	189,531	68,517	121,014
Undergraduate	164,423	60,627	103,796
Graduate	25,108	7,890	17,218
Full-time	59,234	22,413	36,821
Part-time	130,297	46,104	84,193

[Chart] Southern New Hampshire University 2025 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

Southern New Hampshire University has 59,234 full-time and 130,297 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 53,721 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 110,702 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 5,513 students are full-time and 19,595 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
Southern New Hampshire University
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	189,531	59,234	130,297
Undergraduate	164,423	53,721	110,702
Graduate	25,108	5,513	19,595
Men	68,517	22,413	46,104
Women	121,014	36,821	84,193

[Chart] Southern New Hampshire University Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At Southern New Hampshire University, 183,892 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 904 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 189,531 students.

In undergraduate schools, 161,603 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 23,193 students are attending some online courses.

2025 Distance Learning Enrollment
Southern New Hampshire University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	189,531	164,423	25,108
Online Exclusively	183,892	160,747	23,145
In Some Online Classes	904	856	48
Not In Online Classes	4,735	2,820	1,915

[Chart] Southern New Hampshire University Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at Southern New Hampshire University. There are 1,110 American Indian/Native American, 94,437 White, 37,196 Black/African American, 4,752 Asian, 27,885 Hispanic, 738 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 8,135 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
Southern New Hampshire University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	189,531	68,517	121,014
American Indian/Native American	1,110	374	736
Asian	4,752	2,144	2,608
Black/African American	37,196	10,924	26,272
Hispanic	27,885	10,525	17,360
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	738	244	494
White	94,437	35,702	58,735
Two More	7,689	2,573	5,116
Race Un-Known	14,570	5,562	9,008

[Chart] Southern New Hampshire UniversityRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

The following table and chart show the student enrollment by age distribution at Southern New Hampshire University.

Age Distribution
Southern New Hampshire University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	189,531	164,423	25,108
Under 18	508	505	3
Age 18-19	5,103	5,099	4
Age 20-21	11,556	11,476	80
Age 22-24	22,885	20,911	1,974
Age 25-29	41,296	35,901	5,395
Age 30-34	36,504	31,574	4,930
Age 35-39	27,194	23,043	4,151
Age 40-49	30,464	24,928	5,536
Age 50-64	13,253	10,410	2,843
Over 64	767	576	191
Age Un-Known	1	0	1

[Chart] Southern New Hampshire University 2025 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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