In 2016-2017, 2 percentage of Western Michigan University students participated in collegiate sports, according to data made available by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Western Michigan University has 17,936 undergraduate students, of which 50 percent are men and 50 percent are women, and a total student body of 22,869 students. Of these students, 218 men and 231 women represented the school by participating in one or more of the sports with teams at the school.
This total does not include students playing intramural sports.
According to NCES, 4.3 percent of students enrolled at institutions of higher education with sports teams were on teams.
The sports at Western Michigan University with the most participants are all track combined (123), football (99) and soccer (58).