Student Population at Penn State World Campus

The following chart compares Penn State World Campus'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 World Campus has significantly larger enrollment compared to similarly ranked schools (average: 193 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-World Campus and similar colleges.

By gender, there are 6,956 male and 6,818 female students attending Penn State World Campus. The male-to-female student ratio is 1.02 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 World Campus.

At Pennsylvania State University-World Campus, 13,769 students (99.96% of total enrollment) take online classes to get their degrees. Among them, 13,623 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, 6,491 students live in Pennsylvania where Pennsylvania State University-World Campus is located in and 6,812 students have enrolled from other states.