How U.S. college students described their weight as of fall 2023

In the fall of 2023, around 52 percent of U.S. college students described their weight as “about the right weight”. Around 10 percent of respondents stated that they were slightly underweight, while 31 percent described themselves as slightly overweight. This statistic shows the percentage of college students in the United States who described themselves as underweight or overweight as of fall 2023.