Student Population at New York University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
59,144	29,401	29,743

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 59,144 students have enrolled in New York University with 29,401 undergraduate and 29,743 graduate students.

By gender, 24,466 male and 34,678 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)).

4,060 students are enrolled exclusively, and 14,240 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

New York University has a total of 59,144 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 29,401 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 29,743 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 24,466 male and 34,678 female students (the male-female ratio is 41:59) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	59,144	29,401	29,743
Men	24,466	12,019	12,447
Women	34,678	17,382	17,296

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 14,660 White, 3,768 Black, and 9,486 Asian students out of a total of 59,144 are attending at New York 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	74	23	51
Asian	9,486	4,033	5,453
Black	3,768	1,114	2,654
Hispanic	7,190	2,414	4,776
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	46	22	24
White	14,660	5,701	8,959
Two or more races	1,697	595	1,102
Race Unknown	2,530	1,149	1,381

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	46	11	35
Asian	5,889	2,625	3,264
Black	2,290	676	1,614
Hispanic	4,838	1,678	3,160
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	31	14	17
White	6,404	2,516	3,888
Two or more races	1,134	415	719
Race Unknown	1,237	564	673

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	28	12	16
Asian	3,597	1,408	2,189
Black	1,478	438	1,040
Hispanic	2,352	736	1,616
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	15	8	7
White	8,256	3,185	5,071
Two or more races	563	180	383
Race Unknown	1,293	585	708

Student Age Distribution

By age, NYU has 651 students under 18 years old and 31 students over 65 years old. There are 40,792 students under 25 years old, and 18,352 students over 25 years old out of 59,144 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 651 students are younger than 18 and 3 students are older than 65. NYU has 28,437 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 964 students aged 25 and over.

It has 12,355 graduate students aged under 25 and 17,388 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	651	435	216
18-19	11,707	7,248	4,459
20-21	13,571	7,898	5,673
22-24	14,863	8,589	6,274
25-29	11,379	6,639	4,740
30-34	3,825	2,126	1,699
35-39	1,498	786	712
40-49	1,175	683	492
50-64	444	256	188
Over 65	31	18	13

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	651	435	216
18-19	11,704	7,247	4,457
20-21	12,940	7,501	5,439
22-24	3,142	1,617	1,525
25-29	548	326	222
30-34	195	125	70
35-39	94	58	36
40-49	84	44	40
50-64	40	27	13
Over 65	3	2	1

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 New York University, 4,060 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 14,240 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,674 students lived in New York or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 2,386 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	59,144	4,060	14,240
Undergraduate	29,401	263	6,926
Graduate	29,743	3,797	7,314

Online Student Population by Locality
	New York Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	1,674	1,952	434
Undergraduate	134	82	47
Graduate	1,540	1,870	387

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 29,401 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 842 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 2.86%.807 students have transferred in as full-time status and 35 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	27,547
Transfer-in Full-time	807
Regular Part-time	1,012
Transfer-in Part-time	35

Student Population at New York University

Student Population by Gender

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

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Online Student Enrollment

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