Student Population at Cornell

By race/ethnicity, 7,485 White, 1,484 Black, and 5,451 Asian students out of a total of 26,793 are attending at Cornell University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Cornell University is highly diverse with a diversity index of 86.2% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

By age, Cornell has 6,925 students under 18 years old and 2 students over 65 years old. There are 22,141 students under 25 years old, and 4,652 students over 25 years old out of 26,793 total students.

Cornell has 16,080 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 48 students aged 25 and over.

In graduate schools at Cornell, 3 students are younger than 18 and 2 students are older than 65. It has 6,061 graduate students aged under 25 and 4,604 students aged 25 and over.

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially those who want to continue education and work in the field. At Cornell University, 527 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,572 students are enrolled in some online courses.

91 students who live in New York or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 436 students live in another State or outside of the United States.