Georgetown University Student Population

How many students at GU? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 20,031 students have enrolled in Georgetown University with 7,833 undergraduate and 12,198 graduate students.

By gender, 8,833 male and 11,198 female students are attending the school.

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

2,625 students are enrolled exclusively, and 1,344 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

Georgetown University has a total of 20,031 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 7,833 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 12,198 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 8,833 male and 11,198 female students (the male-female ratio is 44:56) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 7,588 White, 1,185 Black, and 2,537 Asian students out of a total of 20,031 are attending at Georgetown University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Georgetown University is highly diverse with a diversity index of 80.5% 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, GU has 107 students under 18 years old and 150 students over 65 years old. There are 11,237 students under 25 years old, and 8,770 students over 25 years old out of 20,031 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 107 students are younger than 18 and 133 students are older than 65. GU has 7,270 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 554 students aged 25 and over.

It has 3,967 graduate students aged under 25 and 8,216 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 Georgetown University, 2,625 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,344 students are enrolled in some online courses.

146 students who live in District of Columbia or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 2,479 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 7,833 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 84 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 1.07%.