Fairleigh Dickinson’s national student body consists of a total 12,247 students, 9,199 of whom are undergraduates and the remaining 3,048 are graduate students with a full time equivalence (FTE) of 8,165.4, making it the largest private institution in the state of
New Jersey.FDU also has over 1,200 international students from over 85 countries around the world ranking it 15th nationally among their Carnegie peer group. The majority of international students attend the Metropolitan Campus and FDU Vancouver which was founded primarily to educate international students. FDU Vancouver is the first American owned and operated institution in British Columbia to receive university status
Fairleigh Dickinson University is formally recognized by the United Nations as an NGO by the UN Department of Public Information.In 2009, the university became the first college to receive special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).Since 2002 the university has hosted more than 150 United Nations ambassadors and officials as part of their U.N. Pathways Forum.