University of Denver Student Population

How many students at DU? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 12,813 students have enrolled in University of Denver with 6,614 undergraduate and 6,199 graduate students.

By gender, 5,062 male and 7,751 female students are attending the school.

It has much fewer students compared to similar colleges (19,644 students on average - private (not-for-profit) Research University (very high research activity)).

2,787 students are enrolled exclusively, and 1,447 students are enrolled in some online courses.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

Student Population by Gender

University of Denver has a total of 12,813 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 6,614 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 6,199 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 5,062 male and 7,751 female students (the male-female ratio is 40:60) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 8,049 White, 693 Black, and 528 Asian students out of a total of 12,813 are attending at University of Denver. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

University of Denver is moderately diverse with a diversity index of 57.7% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution shows moderate representation of multiple racial and ethnic groups.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, DU has 14 students under 18 years old and 19 students over 65 years old. There are 7,210 students under 25 years old, and 5,601 students over 25 years old out of 12,813 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 14 students are younger than 18 and 2 students are older than 65. DU has 5,843 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 769 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,367 graduate students aged under 25 and 4,832 students aged 25 and over.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially those who want to continue education and work in the field. At University of Denver, 2,787 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,447 students are enrolled in some online courses.

875 students who live in Colorado or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,912 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 6,614 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 201 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 3.04%.170 students have transferred in as full-time status and 31 students transferred in as part-time status.