Whats the average age of graduate school students?
This answer is just based on my own experience…. The range of ages is as wide as it is for undergraduate students. Probably at least half are ‘traditional age’, meaning that that they move into graduate school directly after getting their undergrad degree at about 21 years old. People typically stay in grad school 1-5 years. However, there are plenty of non-traditionally aged people in grad school, but you don’t see too many over the age of 50 unless they are really dragging out the completion of a PhD. I would say that age is less of a concern in a ‘social’ sense in grad school than it is in undergrad. In undergrad, the three year age gap between freshman and seniors is significant and noticable. A three year age difference between students in grad school would be totally un-noticed. You might be able to find an actual statistical average somewhere, but remember that averages don’t tell you too much. One 100 year old student will really skew the average.
