Fordham University Student Population

How many students at Fordham? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 16,150 students have enrolled in Fordham University with 10,582 undergraduate and 5,568 graduate students.

By gender, 6,252 male and 9,898 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)).

1,147 students are enrolled exclusively, and 1,403 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

Fordham University has a total of 16,150 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 10,582 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 5,568 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 6,252 male and 9,898 female students (the male-female ratio is 39:61) are attending the school.

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Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 7,050 White, 1,282 Black, and 1,819 Asian students out of a total of 16,150 are attending at Fordham University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Fordham University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 75.2% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, Fordham has 562 students under 18 years old and 29 students over 65 years old. There are 11,960 students under 25 years old, and 4,169 students over 25 years old out of 16,150 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 562 students are younger than 18 and 3 students are older than 65. Fordham has 10,148 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 415 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,812 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,754 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 Fordham University, 1,147 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,403 students are enrolled in some online courses.

708 students who live in New York or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 439 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 10,582 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 321 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 3.03%.286 students have transferred in as full-time status and 35 students transferred in as part-time status.