Student Population at Boston University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
36,714	18,459	18,255

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 36,714 students have enrolled in Boston University with 18,459 undergraduate and 18,255 graduate students.

By gender, 15,646 male and 21,068 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (19,694 students in average - private (not-for-profit) Research University (very high research activity)).

4,044 students are enrolled exclusively, and 1,213 students are enrolled in some online courses.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

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Student Population by Gender

Boston University has a total of 36,714 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 18,459 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 18,255 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 15,646 male and 21,068 female students (the male-female ratio is 43:57) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	36,714	18,459	18,255
Men	15,646	7,742	7,904
Women	21,068	10,717	10,351

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 12,654 White, 1,638 Black, and 5,418 Asian students out of a total of 36,714 are attending at Boston University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the next chart (Academic year 2022-2023 data).

All Students

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Total)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	19	6	13
Asian	5,418	2,428	2,990
Black	1,638	477	1,161
Hispanic	3,298	1,195	2,103
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	27	7	20
White	12,654	4,901	7,753
Two or more races	1,260	478	782
Race Unknown	1,848	858	990

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	6	2	4
Asian	3,541	1,644	1,897
Black	900	243	657
Hispanic	1,930	708	1,222
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	14	5	9
White	6,085	2,403	3,682
Two or more races	824	316	508
Race Unknown	984	499	485

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	13	4	9
Asian	1,877	784	1,093
Black	738	234	504
Hispanic	1,368	487	881
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	13	2	11
White	6,569	2,498	4,071
Two or more races	436	162	274
Race Unknown	864	359	505

Student Age Distribution

By age, BU has 275 students under 18 years old and 97 students over 65 years old. There are 24,673 students under 25 years old, and 12,040 students over 25 years old out of 36,714 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 275 students are younger than 18 and 74 students are older than 65. BU has 17,947 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 511 students aged 25 and over.

It has 6,726 graduate students aged under 25 and 11,529 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	275	166	109
18-19	7,536	4,467	3,069
20-21	8,563	5,198	3,365
22-24	8,299	4,788	3,511
25-29	6,267	3,503	2,764
30-34	2,635	1,373	1,262
35-39	1,363	649	714
40-49	1,243	626	617
50-64	435	252	183
Over 65	97	45	52

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	275	166	109
18-19	7,536	4,467	3,069
20-21	8,271	4,988	3,283
22-24	1,865	857	1,008
25-29	221	96	125
30-34	74	38	36
35-39	49	22	27
40-49	53	28	25
50-64	40	22	18
Over 65	74	32	42

Graduate

Student Age Distribution (Graduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women

Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially who want to continue education and work in field. At Boston University, 4,044 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,213 students are enrolled in some online courses.

820 students lived in Massachusetts or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 3,224 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

Online Student Population
	All Students	Enrolled Exclusively Online Courses	Enrolled in Some Online Courses
All Students	36,714	4,044	1,213
Undergraduate	18,459	98	90
Graduate	18,255	3,946	1,123

Online Student Population by Locality
	Massachusetts Residents	Other States in U.S.
All Students	820	3,224
Undergraduate	28	70
Graduate	792	3,154

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 18,459 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 681 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 3.69%.680 students have transferred in as full-time status and 1 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	17,054
Transfer-in Full-time	680
Regular Part-time	724
Transfer-in Part-time	1

Student Population at Boston University

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