Howard University Student Population

How many students at HU? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 14,890 students have enrolled in Howard University with 11,519 undergraduate and 3,371 graduate students.

By gender, 4,420 male and 10,470 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (10,607 students on average - private (not-for-profit) Research University (high research activity)).

1,482 students are enrolled exclusively, and 7,410 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

Howard University has a total of 14,890 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 11,519 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 3,371 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 4,420 male and 10,470 female students (the male-female ratio is 30:70) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 120 White, 10,050 Black, and 246 Asian students out of a total of 14,890 are attending at Howard University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Howard University is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 51.7% 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, HU has 1,452 students under 18 years old and 10 students over 65 years old. There are 12,200 students under 25 years old, and 2,683 students over 25 years old out of 14,890 total students.

HU has 11,338 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 181 students aged 25 and over.

It has 862 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,502 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 Howard University, 1,482 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 7,410 students are enrolled in some online courses.

128 students who live in District of Columbia or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,354 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 11,519 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 190 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 1.65%.178 students have transferred in as full-time status and 12 students transferred in as part-time status.