Drexel University Student Population

How many students at Drexel? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 21,153 students have enrolled in Drexel University with 13,309 undergraduate and 7,844 graduate students.

By gender, 9,738 male and 11,415 female students are attending the school.

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

3,757 students are enrolled exclusively, and 5,321 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

Drexel University has a total of 21,153 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 13,309 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 7,844 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 9,738 male and 11,415 female students (the male-female ratio is 46:54) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 9,077 White, 2,250 Black, and 4,268 Asian students out of a total of 21,153 are attending at Drexel University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Drexel University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 75.5% 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, Drexel has 53 students under 18 years old and 27 students over 65 years old. There are 14,246 students under 25 years old, and 6,907 students over 25 years old out of 21,153 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 53 students are younger than 18 and 7 students are older than 65. Drexel has 12,341 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 968 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,905 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,939 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 Drexel University, 3,757 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 5,321 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,899 students who live in Pennsylvania or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,858 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 13,309 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 709 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 5.33%.580 students have transferred in as full-time status and 129 students transferred in as part-time status.