Harvard University Student Population

How many students at Harvard? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 30,259 students have enrolled in Harvard University with 8,844 undergraduate and 21,415 graduate students.

By gender, 13,812 male and 16,447 female students are attending the school.

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

7,584 students are enrolled exclusively, and 1,603 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

Harvard University has a total of 30,259 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 8,844 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 21,415 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 13,812 male and 16,447 female students (the male-female ratio is 46:54) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 9,826 White, 1,880 Black, and 4,682 Asian students out of a total of 30,259 are attending at Harvard University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Harvard University is highly diverse with a diversity index of 85.3% 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, Harvard has 147 students under 18 years old and 170 students over 65 years old. There are 10,634 students under 25 years old, and 19,625 students over 25 years old out of 30,259 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 147 students are younger than 18 and 28 students are older than 65. Harvard has 7,475 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,369 students aged 25 and over.

It has 3,159 graduate students aged under 25 and 18,256 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 Harvard University, 7,584 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,603 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,805 students who live in Massachusetts or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 5,779 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 8,844 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 13 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 0.15%.