Boston University Student Population and Demographics

BU Student Population

There are 37,737 students including 18,805 undergraduate and 18,932 graduate students at Boston University for the academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 29,259 full-time and 8,478 part-time students with gender distribution of 15,963 male and 21,774 female students.

Boston University is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 5,423 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

Boston University has a total enrollment of 37,737 with a gender distribution of 42.30% male (15,963 students) and 57.70% female (21,774 students). There are 7,841 male and 10,964 female students in undergraduate school and 8,122 male and 10,810 female students are attending graduate school at Boston University.

Student Population By Gender
Boston University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	37,737	15,963	21,774
Undergraduate	18,805	7,841	10,964
Graduate	18,932	8,122	10,810
Full-time	29,259	12,254	17,005
Part-time	8,478	3,709	4,769

[Chart] Boston University 2025 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

Boston University has 29,259 full-time and 8,478 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 18,285 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 520 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 10,974 students are full-time and 7,958 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
Boston University
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	37,737	29,259	8,478
Undergraduate	18,805	18,285	520
Graduate	18,932	10,974	7,958
Men	15,963	12,254	3,709
Women	21,774	17,005	4,769

[Chart] Boston University Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At Boston University, 5,423 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,354 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 37,737 students.

In undergraduate schools, 216 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 6,561 students are attending some online courses.

2025 Distance Learning Enrollment
Boston University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	37,737	18,805	18,932
Online Exclusively	5,423	103	5,320
In Some Online Classes	1,354	113	1,241
Not In Online Classes	30,960	18,589	12,371

[Chart] Boston University Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at Boston University. There are 18 American Indian/Native American, 12,524 White, 1,929 Black/African American, 6,013 Asian, 3,579 Hispanic, 21 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 1,526 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
Boston University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	37,737	15,963	21,774
American Indian/Native American	18	7	11
Asian	6,013	2,700	3,313
Black/African American	1,929	563	1,366
Hispanic	3,579	1,253	2,326
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	21	7	14
White	12,524	4,907	7,617
Two More	1,351	521	830
Race Un-Known	2,392	1,005	1,387

[Chart] Boston UniversityRace/Ethnicity Distribution

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