Student Population at Mississippi State

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

Mississippi State has similar enrollment size to similarly ranked schools (average: 22,215 students). The enrollment is larger than the Public, 4-Years Colleges in Mississippi average (9,820 students).

The below chart compares the student population between Mississippi State University and similar colleges.

By gender, there are 11,153 male and 11,997 female students attending Mississippi State. The male-to-female student ratio is 0.93 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 Mississippi State.

By age, there are 18,798 students whose age under twenty five and 2,540 students whose age is over thirty years old at Mississippi State University.

Especially, 273 students are younger than eighteen and 34 students are older than sixty five.

The following table and chart show the student population by student age at Mississippi State University.

At Mississippi State University, 9,959 students (43.02% of total enrollment) take online classes to get their degrees. Among them, 3,877 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, 2,473 students live in Mississippi where Mississippi State University is located in and 1,342 students have enrolled from other states.