University of Delaware Student Population

How many students at UD? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 24,412 students have enrolled in University of Delaware with 20,026 undergraduate and 4,386 graduate students.

By gender, 10,041 male and 14,371 female students are attending the school.

It has fewer students compared to similar colleges (34,856 students on average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

1,739 students are enrolled exclusively, and 9,180 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 Delaware has a total of 24,412 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 20,026 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 4,386 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 10,041 male and 14,371 female students (the male-female ratio is 41:59) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 14,840 White, 1,550 Black, and 1,370 Asian students out of a total of 24,412 are attending at University of Delaware. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

University of Delaware is moderately diverse with a diversity index of 61.2% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, UD has 555 students under 18 years old and 102 students over 65 years old. There are 21,082 students under 25 years old, and 3,330 students over 25 years old out of 24,412 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 555 students are younger than 18 and 68 students are older than 65. UD has 19,621 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 405 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,461 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,925 students aged 25 and over.

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• 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 Delaware, 1,739 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 9,180 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,306 students who live in Delaware or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 433 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 20,026 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 654 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 3.27%.464 students have transferred in as full-time status and 190 students transferred in as part-time status.