Student Population at Vanderbilt

By race/ethnicity, 6,260 White, 1,155 Black, and 1,864 Asian students out of a total of 13,575 are attending at Vanderbilt University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Vanderbilt University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 74.8% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

By age, Vanderbilt has 104 students under 18 years old and 15 students over 65 years old. There are 9,407 students under 25 years old, and 4,168 students over 25 years old out of 13,575 total students.

Vanderbilt has 7,199 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 22 students aged 25 and over.

In graduate schools at Vanderbilt, 1 students are younger than 18 and 15 students are older than 65. It has 2,208 graduate students aged under 25 and 4,146 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 Vanderbilt University, 652 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 666 students are enrolled in some online courses.

68 students who live in Tennessee or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 584 students live in another State or outside of the United States.