Southern Methodist University Student Population

How many students at SMU? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 12,116 students have enrolled in Southern Methodist University with 7,285 undergraduate and 4,831 graduate students.

By gender, 6,048 male and 6,068 female students are attending the school.

It has relatively many students compared to similar colleges (10,607 students on average - private (not-for-profit) Research University (high research activity)).

669 students are enrolled exclusively, and 1,002 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

Southern Methodist University has a total of 12,116 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 7,285 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 4,831 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 6,048 male and 6,068 female students (the male-female ratio is 50:50) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 6,260 White, 927 Black, and 980 Asian students out of a total of 12,116 are attending at Southern Methodist University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Southern Methodist University is moderately diverse with a diversity index of 69.2% 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, SMU has 56 students under 18 years old and 38 students over 65 years old. There are 8,730 students under 25 years old, and 3,386 students over 25 years old out of 12,116 total students.

SMU has 7,128 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 157 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,602 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,229 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 Southern Methodist University, 669 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,002 students are enrolled in some online courses.

505 students who live in Texas or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 164 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 7,285 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 314 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 4.31%.307 students have transferred in as full-time status and 7 students transferred in as part-time status.