Transfer Enrollment

A total of 1,272 transfer students enrolled in fall 2018, an increase of 2 percent from 2017. This increase comes after two years of declining transfer enrollment and was due primarily to a 12 percent increase in adult transfer students (24 years of age and older). Enrolling in fall 2018 were 925 traditional-age transfer students (under 24 years of age) and 347 adult transfer students, compared with 932 and 311, respectively, in 2017.

The three largest colleges for total new transfer enrollment—Driehaus College of Business, College of Computing and Digital Media  and  College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences—together enrolled 66 percent of transfers.  Forty-two percent of new transfers entered DePaul with sophomore status, and 39 percent with junior status. Eighty-seven percent of new transfers are full-time, compared with 91 percent in 2017. 

Transfer students remain an important component of DePaul's enrollment profile. Throughout the 2017-18academic year, DePaul enrolled a total of 1,933 transfer students and 2,491 freshmen.

Over half of all new transfers are male (53 percent) in 2017, compared with 51 percent in 2013. Forty-eight percent of new transfers are students of color, compared with 43 percent of new freshmen. DePaul transfers include: 

• 300 Hispanic/Latino students (24 percent) 
  
• 153 Asian students (12 percent) 
  
• 133 African-American students (10 percent) 
  
• 30 students from other/unreported backgrounds (2 percent) 
  
• 60 students from multiracial/non-Hispanic backgrounds (5 percent) 
  
• 3 Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students (<1 percent) 
  
• 5 American Indian/Alaska Native (<1 percent) 
  
• 543 Caucasian students (52 percent)