In 2016-2017, 11.1 percentage of Sacred Heart University students participated in collegiate sports, according to data made available by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Sacred Heart University has 5,603 undergraduate students, of which 64 percent are women and 36 percent are men, and a total student body of 8,543 students. Of these students, 430 men and 515 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 Sacred Heart University with the most participants are all track combined (264), football (117) and lacrosse (75).