Student Population at Penn State

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

Penn State has significantly larger enrollment compared to similarly ranked schools (average: 34,558 students). The enrollment is larger than the Public, 4-Years Colleges in Pennsylvania average (6,028 students).

The below chart compares the student population between Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus and similar colleges.

By gender, there are 26,611 male and 24,126 female students attending Penn State. The male-to-female student ratio is 1.10 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 Penn State.

At Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus, 20,499 students (40.40% of total enrollment) take online classes to get their degrees. Among them, 321 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, 274 students live in Pennsylvania where Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus is located in and 44 students have enrolled from other states.