University of Kentucky Student Population and Demographics

Kentucky Student Population

There are 34,709 students including 25,534 undergraduate and 9,175 graduate students at University of Kentucky for the academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 30,442 full-time and 4,267 part-time students with gender distribution of 13,833 male and 20,876 female students.

University of Kentucky is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 5,063 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

University of Kentucky has a total enrollment of 34,709 with a gender distribution of 39.85% male (13,833 students) and 60.15% female (20,876 students). There are 10,671 male and 14,863 female students in undergraduate school and 3,162 male and 6,013 female students are attending graduate school at University of Kentucky.

Student Population By Gender
University of Kentucky
	Total	Men	Women
Total	34,709	13,833	20,876
Undergraduate	25,534	10,671	14,863
Graduate	9,175	3,162	6,013
Full-time	30,442	12,326	18,116
Part-time	4,267	1,507	2,760

[Chart] University of Kentucky 2025 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

University of Kentucky has 30,442 full-time and 4,267 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 23,390 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 2,144 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 7,052 students are full-time and 2,123 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
University of Kentucky
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	34,709	30,442	4,267
Undergraduate	25,534	23,390	2,144
Graduate	9,175	7,052	2,123
Men	13,833	12,326	1,507
Women	20,876	18,116	2,760

[Chart] University of Kentucky Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At University of Kentucky, 5,063 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 13,126 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 34,709 students.

In undergraduate schools, 13,588 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 4,601 students are attending some online courses.

2025 Distance Learning Enrollment
University of Kentucky
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	34,709	25,534	9,175
Online Exclusively	5,063	1,508	3,555
In Some Online Classes	13,126	12,080	1,046
Not In Online Classes	16,520	11,946	4,574

[Chart] University of Kentucky Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at University of Kentucky. There are 70 American Indian/Native American, 25,632 White, 2,387 Black/African American, 1,295 Asian, 2,236 Hispanic, 28 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 737 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
University of Kentucky
	Total	Men	Women
Total	34,709	13,833	20,876
American Indian/Native American	70	26	44
Asian	1,295	555	740
Black/African American	2,387	797	1,590
Hispanic	2,236	889	1,347
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	28	9	19
White	25,632	10,133	15,499
Two More	1,384	527	857
Race Un-Known	452	210	242

[Chart] University of KentuckyRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

The following table and chart show the student enrollment by age distribution at University of Kentucky.

Age Distribution
University of Kentucky
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	34,709	25,534	9,175
Under 18	597	597	0
Age 18-19	11,238	11,233	5
Age 20-21	9,894	9,704	190
Age 22-24	5,356	2,511	2,845
Age 25-29	3,369	619	2,750
Age 30-34	1,574	294	1,280
Age 35-39	939	211	728
Age 40-49	1,135	188	947
Age 50-64	488	104	384
Over 64	119	73	46
Age Un-Known	0	0	0

[Chart] University of Kentucky 2025 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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