DePaul University Student Population

How many students at DePaul? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 21,210 students have enrolled in DePaul University with 14,188 undergraduate and 7,022 graduate students.

By gender, 9,464 male and 11,746 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)).

2,424 students are enrolled exclusively, and 9,056 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

DePaul University has a total of 21,210 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 14,188 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 7,022 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 9,464 male and 11,746 female students (the male-female ratio is 45:55) are attending the school.

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Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 8,695 White, 1,879 Black, and 2,366 Asian students out of a total of 21,210 are attending at DePaul University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

DePaul University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 76.8% 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, DePaul has 72 students under 18 years old and 39 students over 65 years old. There are 15,255 students under 25 years old, and 5,954 students over 25 years old out of 21,210 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 72 students are younger than 18 and 7 students are older than 65. DePaul has 12,842 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,346 students aged 25 and over.

It has 2,413 graduate students aged under 25 and 4,608 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 DePaul University, 2,424 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 9,056 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,996 students who live in Illinois or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 428 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 14,188 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,048 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.39%.954 students have transferred in as full-time status and 94 students transferred in as part-time status.