Student Population at GMU

The following chart compares GMU's student enrollment with similarly ranked schools, all colleges nationwide, Public, 4-Years Colleges, 4-Years Colleges, and Public, 4-Years Colleges in Virginia.

GMU has significantly larger enrollment compared to similarly ranked schools (average: 25,512 students). The enrollment is larger than the Public, 4-Years Colleges in Virginia average (12,989 students).

The below chart compares the student population between George Mason University and similar colleges.

By gender, there are 19,381 male and 20,385 female students attending GMU. The male-to-female student ratio is 0.95 to 1 and the ratio is than national average (the national average is 0.75 to 1).

The following table and chart show the student population by gender and attending status at GMU.

By age, there are 27,188 students whose age under twenty five and 6,715 students whose age is over thirty years old at George Mason University.

Especially, 466 students are younger than eighteen and 107 students are older than sixty five.

The following table and chart show the student population by student age at George Mason University.

At George Mason University, 27,704 students (69.67% of total enrollment) take online classes to get their degrees. Among them, 7,435 students enrolled exclusively in online classes (i.e. no off-line attendance required) and others are taking online courses with off-line courses. The following tables describe the number of students who enrolled in one or more online courses.

By location of enrolled students, 386 students live in Virginia where George Mason University is located in and 6,970 students have enrolled from other states.