Student Population at Radford

By race/ethnicity, 5,161 White, 968 Black, and 140 Asian students out of a total of 7,812 are attending at Radford University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Radford University is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 53.3% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution shows moderate representation of multiple racial and ethnic groups.

By age, Radford has 118 students under 18 years old and 11 students over 65 years old. There are 5,795 students under 25 years old, and 2,017 students over 25 years old out of 7,812 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 118 students are younger than 18 and 6 students are older than 65. Radford has 5,268 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 893 students aged 25 and over.

It has 527 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,124 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 Radford University, 1,759 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 3,307 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,529 students who live in Virginia or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 230 students live in another State or outside of the United States.