Student Population at Penn State

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

By gender, there are 26,390 male and 23,638 female students attending Penn State. The male-to-female student ratio is 1.12 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.

By age, there are 44,901 students whose age under twenty five and 1,870 students whose age is over thirty years old at Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus.

Especially, 7,798 students are younger than eighteen and 7 students are older than sixty five.

The following table and chart show the student population by student age at Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus.

At Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus, 18,148 students (36.28% of total enrollment) take online classes to get their degrees. Among them, 116 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, 90 students live in Pennsylvania where Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus is located in and 19 students have enrolled from other states.