University of the People Student Population and Demographics

the People Student Population

There are 41,961 students including 36,901 undergraduate and 5,060 graduate students at University of the People for the academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 20,660 full-time and 21,301 part-time students with gender distribution of 22,633 male and 19,328 female students.

University of the People is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 41,961 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

University of the People has a total enrollment of 41,961 with a gender distribution of 53.94% male (22,633 students) and 46.06% female (19,328 students). There are 19,941 male and 16,960 female students in undergraduate school and 2,692 male and 2,368 female students are attending graduate school at University of the People.

Student Population By Gender
University of the People
	Total	Men	Women
Total	41,961	22,633	19,328
Undergraduate	36,901	19,941	16,960
Graduate	5,060	2,692	2,368
Full-time	20,660	11,226	9,434
Part-time	21,301	11,407	9,894

[Chart] University of the People 2025 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

University of the People has 20,660 full-time and 21,301 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 19,007 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 17,894 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 1,653 students are full-time and 3,407 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
University of the People
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	41,961	20,660	21,301
Undergraduate	36,901	19,007	17,894
Graduate	5,060	1,653	3,407
Men	22,633	11,226	11,407
Women	19,328	9,434	9,894

[Chart] University of the People Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At University of the People, 41,961 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 0 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 41,961 students.

In undergraduate schools, 36,901 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 5,060 students are attending some online courses.

2025 Distance Learning Enrollment
University of the People
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	41,961	36,901	5,060
Online Exclusively	41,961	36,901	5,060
In Some Online Classes	0	0	0
Not In Online Classes	0	0	0

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

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at University of the People. There are 28 American Indian/Native American, 1,957 White, 1,159 Black/African American, 632 Asian, 1,113 Hispanic, 25 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 20,286 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
University of the People
	Total	Men	Women
Total	41,961	22,633	19,328
American Indian/Native American	28	14	14
Asian	632	327	305
Black/African American	1,159	569	590
Hispanic	1,113	527	586
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	25	12	13
White	1,957	898	1,059
Two More	218	93	125
Race Un-Known	36,829	20,193	16,636

[Chart] University of the PeopleRace/Ethnicity Distribution

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