Harvard University Student Population and Demographics

Student Population

For academic year 2017-2018, there are 31,120 students including 9,965 undergraduate and 21,155 graduate students at Harvard University. By attending status, there are 20,918 full-time and 10,202 part-time students with gender distribution of 15,916 male and 15,204 female students.

Student Gender Distribution

Harvard University has a total enrollment of 31,120 with a gender distribution of 51.14% male (15,916 students) and 48.86% female (15,204 students).

Student Population By Gender
Harvard University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	31,120	15,916	15,204
Undergraduate	9,965	5,101	4,864
Graduate	21,155	10,815	10,340
Full-time	20,918	10,708	10,210
Part-time	10,202	5,208	4,994

[Chart] Harvard University 2018 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

Harvard University has a 20,918 full-time students and 10,202 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 7,147 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 2,818 are part-time students. In graduate school, 13,771 students are full-time and 7,384 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
Harvard University
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	31,120	20,918	10,202
Undergraduate	9,965	7,147	2,818
Graduate	21,155	13,771	7,384
Men	15,916	10,708	5,208
Women	15,204	10,210	4,994

[Chart] Harvard University Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At Harvard University, 3,244 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,356 students are enrolled in some online course out of total 31,120 students. In undergraduate schools, 1,182 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 3,418 students join some online courses.

2018 Distance Learning Enrollment
Harvard University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	31,120	9,965	21,155
Online Exclusively	3,244	668	2,576
In Some Online Classes	1,356	514	842
Not In Online Classes	26,520	8,783	17,737

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

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyze the student population by race/ethnicity at Harvard University. There are 54 American Indian/Native American, 13,183 White, 1,683 Black/African American, 4,584 Asian, 2,629 Hispanic, 37 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 1,207 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity at
Harvard University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	31,120	15,916	15,204
American Indian/Native American	54	32	22
Asian	4,584	2,158	2,426
Black/African American	1,683	804	879
Hispanic	2,629	1,374	1,255
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	37	18	19
White	13,183	6,866	6,317
Two More	1,188	556	632
Race Un-Known	1,190	651	539

[Chart] Harvard UniversityRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

Next table and chart show the student enrollment by age distribution at Harvard University.

Age Distribution
Harvard University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	31,120	9,965	21,155
Under 18	154	154	0
Age 18-19	2,405	2,396	9
Age 20-21	3,422	3,361	61
Age 22-24	4,670	1,958	2,712
Age 25-29	10,323	860	9,463
Age 30-34	4,557	398	4,159
Age 35-39	2,237	279	1,958
Age 40-49	2,158	330	1,828
Age 50-64	1,082	195	887
Over 64	112	34	78
Age Un-Known	0	0	0

[Chart] Harvard University 2018 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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