Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus Student Population

How many students at FDU-Metropolitan? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 8,045 students have enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus with 5,690 undergraduate and 2,355 graduate students.

By gender, 3,311 male and 4,734 female students are attending the school.

It has relatively many students compared to similar colleges (6,772 students on average - private (not-for-profit) Master's College and University (larger programs)).

1,759 students are enrolled exclusively, and 1,207 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

Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus has a total of 8,045 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 5,690 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 2,355 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 3,311 male and 4,734 female students (the male-female ratio is 41:59) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 3,221 White, 621 Black, and 520 Asian students out of a total of 8,045 are attending at Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus is quite diverse with a diversity index of 76.5% 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, FDU-Metropolitan has 1,529 students under 18 years old and 16 students over 65 years old. There are 5,670 students under 25 years old, and 2,360 students over 25 years old out of 8,045 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 1,529 students are younger than 18 and 1 students are older than 65. FDU-Metropolitan has 5,219 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 469 students aged 25 and over.

It has 451 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,891 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 Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus, 1,759 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,207 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,107 students who live in New Jersey or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 652 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 5,690 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 156 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 2.74%.125 students have transferred in as full-time status and 31 students transferred in as part-time status.