Northwestern University Student Population

How many students at Northwestern? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 23,161 students have enrolled in Northwestern University with 8,993 undergraduate and 14,168 graduate students.

By gender, 10,711 male and 12,450 female students are attending the school.

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

1,123 students are enrolled exclusively, and 1,594 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

Northwestern University has a total of 23,161 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 8,993 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 14,168 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 10,711 male and 12,450 female students (the male-female ratio is 46:54) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 8,560 White, 1,296 Black, and 3,697 Asian students out of a total of 23,161 are attending at Northwestern University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in chart below (academic year 2022-2023 data).

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, Northwestern has 86 students under 18 years old and 22 students over 65 years old. There are 12,368 students under 25 years old, and 11,032 students over 25 years old out of 23,409 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 86 students are younger than 18 and 2 students are older than 65. Northwestern has 8,555 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 288 students aged 25 and over.

It has 3,813 graduate students aged under 25 and 10,744 students aged 25 and over.

*The age distribution is based on 2021-2022 enrollment data.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

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 Northwestern University, 1,123 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,594 students are enrolled in some online courses.

323 students lived in Illinois or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 800 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 8,993 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 228 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 2.54%.