Seattle University Student Population

How many students at Seattle? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 7,189 students have enrolled in Seattle University with 4,078 undergraduate and 3,111 graduate students.

By gender, 2,639 male and 4,550 female students are attending the school.

It has relatively many students compared to similar colleges (6,371 students on average - private (not-for-profit) Doctoral / Research University).

564 students are enrolled exclusively, and 915 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

Seattle University has a total of 7,189 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 4,078 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 3,111 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 2,639 male and 4,550 female students (the male-female ratio is 37:63) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 2,344 White, 477 Black, and 1,559 Asian students out of a total of 7,189 are attending at Seattle University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Seattle University is highly diverse with a diversity index of 81.5% 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, Seattle has 35 students under 18 years old and 6 students over 65 years old. There are 4,626 students under 25 years old, and 2,558 students over 25 years old out of 7,189 total students.

Seattle has 3,864 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 209 students aged 25 and over.

It has 762 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,349 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 Seattle University, 564 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 915 students are enrolled in some online courses.

496 students who live in Washington or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 68 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 4,078 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 309 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.58%.306 students have transferred in as full-time status and 3 students transferred in as part-time status.