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Facts and Figures
About UD

Enrollment

 

19,071

undergraduate students

4,386

graduate students

955

Professional &
Continuing Studies students

24,412

total enrollment

 

Main Campus: Newark, Delaware

Established: 1743

Motto: Knowledge is the light of the mind

President: Dennis Assanis 

Employees: 4,774 

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 

35

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


94% of 2023 graduates are employed
or pursuing further education

 

200,000+ Alumni around the world 

Career Outcomes >

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.

#2 Physical Therapy Graduate Program 

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.)

#7 Chemical Engineering Program
 

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.

#34 in Best Graduate School for Education

Students congregate near a UD flag.

#34 in Best Public Affairs Programs
 

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)

#38 Best Engineering Graduate Programs

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

#44 National Public Universities 
 

Source: U.S. News

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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Courtesy of Sarah Hartman
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

football player diving through the air

21

NCAA Division I Teams
 

34

Intramural Sports Leagues

36

Club Sports
 

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