Facts and Figures

About UD

Enrollment

18,618

undergraduate students

4,285

graduate students

710

Professional &
Continuing Studies students

23,613

total enrollment

Main Campus: Newark, Delaware

Established: 1743

Motto: Knowledge is the light of the mind

President: Dennis Assanis

Employees: 4,746

UD is a land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant university, tackling the biggest challenges facing our state, nation and the world.

Academic Programs

150+ majors and minors

250+ graduate and post-baccalaureate programs

10 colleges and schools

Azeem Sharief, a junior in chemical engineering, is working on summer research with assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Catherine Fromen and graduate student Emily Kolewe, on 3D Printed Human Lung Morphology Models for Particle Transport and Deposition Studies. - (Evan Krape / University of Delaware)

12:1

student-faculty ratio

average class size

The 170th Commencement Ceremonies for the University of Delaware which graduated the Class of 2019. The commencement speaker was Matt Nagy, a UD alum from the class of 2001 and the first UD alumnus to earn a head coaching position in the National Football League, becoming head coach of the Chicago Bears in 2018.

Life after UD

97% of 2021 graduates are employed
or pursuing further education

200,000+ Alumni around the world

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Rankings & Honors

Kennedi Avent, daughter of University of Delaware alumna Tonya Avent, receives physical therapy from Greg Seymour for a torn PCL. Avent travels to the Delaware PT Clinic from her home in New Jersey on a monthly basis for progress benchmarks.

Aditya Kunjapur, a new assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named to the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security’s Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative fellowship program in 2019. He works with graduate students Sabyasachi (Sunny) Sen and Morgan Sulzbach in his lab in Colburn using the latest pipette techniques with gels. (Releases obtained on all participates.)

Rebecca Vitelli is a teacher at Colonial District's Colwyck Center and is the 2020 Delaware Teacher of the Year. She received two degrees from the University of Delaware: a Bachelor of Science in early childhood education and Master of Education with a concentration in children with autism and severe disabilities.

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Jack Puleo studies how sand dunes erode during extreme waves and storm surges. He and several of his students have been constructing wave flumes which model the land / shore interaction and delivering them to 12 schools across the Mid-Atlantic. - (Evan Krape / University of Delaware)

UD football team entry onto field at the UD vs Bucknell game 091512.

Source: U.S. News

Best Value Colleges, Princeton Review

No. 38 of 100 best value colleges, Kiplinger’s

No. 4 Military Friendly School, Viqtory

No. 34 Online MBA, Poets&Quants

Best Employer in Delaware, Forbes Magazine

Top 25 public university for providing students the highest salaries for their tuition dollars, CNBC

No. 38 undergraduate schools for entrepreneurial studies, The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine

“Best of the Best” Top Veteran-Friendly Schools Listing, U.S. Veterans Magazine

Global Impact

First U.S. institution
to study abroad, in 1923

30% of undergraduate students
study abroad each year

100+ study abroad programs
in over 40 countries

200+ global partnerships
with institutions on six continents

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UD's chapter of Engineers Without Borders

Research & Innovation

1 million square feet
of teaching, industrial and clinical space being developed at STAR Campus

80 research centers
Leading to 148 patents and 30 startups in the last decade

Top 3% in U.S.
in terms of research activity

Delaware & The Mid-Atlantic Region

$4.7 Billion
economic impact on the Northeast Corridor

24,450 jobs
supported by UD's economic impact in Delaware

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Athletics

NCAA Division I Teams

Intramural Sports Leagues

Club Sports