In 2016-2017, 7.2 percentage of University of Detroit Mercy students participated in collegiate sports, according to data made available by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
University of Detroit Mercy has 2,843 undergraduate students, of which 63 percent are women and 37 percent are men, and a total student body of 5,113 students. Of these students, 191 men and 176 women represented the school by participating in one or more of the sports with teams at the school.
This total does not include students playing intramural sports.
According to NCES, 4.3 percent of students enrolled at institutions of higher education with sports teams were on teams.
The sports at University of Detroit Mercy with the most participants are all track combined (134), lacrosse (77) and soccer (54).