Student Population at University of California-Santa Barbara

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
26,420	23,459	2,961

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 26,420 students have enrolled in University of California-Santa Barbara with 23,459 undergraduate and 2,961 graduate students.

By gender, 11,905 male and 14,515 female students are attending the school.

It has fewer students compared to similar colleges (33,713 students in average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

10 students are enrolled exclusively, and 2,747 students are enrolled in some online courses.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

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Student Population by Gender

University of California-Santa Barbara has a total of 26,420 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 23,459 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 2,961 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 11,905 male and 14,515 female students (the male-female ratio is 45:55) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	26,420	23,459	2,961
Men	11,905	10,360	1,545
Women	14,515	13,099	1,416

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 8,418 White, 543 Black, and 4,715 Asian students out of a total of 26,420 are attending at University of California-Santa Barbara. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the next chart (Academic year 2022-2023 data).

All Students

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Total)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	40	16	24
Asian	4,715	2,374	2,341
Black	543	190	353
Hispanic	6,231	2,308	3,923
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	27	14	13
White	8,418	3,660	4,758
Two or more races	2,055	844	1,211
Race Unknown	633	311	322

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	26	11	15
Asian	4,368	2,201	2,167
Black	437	150	287
Hispanic	5,885	2,152	3,733
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	23	11	12
White	7,311	3,117	4,194
Two or more races	2,030	834	1,196
Race Unknown	598	288	310

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	14	5	9
Asian	347	173	174
Black	106	40	66
Hispanic	346	156	190
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	4	3	1
White	1,107	543	564
Two or more races	25	10	15
Race Unknown	35	23	12

Student Age Distribution

By age, UCSB has 568 students under 18 years old and 4 students over 65 years old. There are 23,728 students under 25 years old, and 2,692 students over 25 years old out of 26,420 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 568 students are younger than 18 and 1 students are older than 65. UCSB has 22,913 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 546 students aged 25 and over.

It has 815 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,146 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	568	367	201
18-19	9,241	5,504	3,737
20-21	10,427	5,840	4,587
22-24	3,492	1,549	1,943
25-29	1,791	801	990
30-34	592	286	306
35-39	171	87	84
40-49	96	57	39
50-64	38	22	16
Over 65	4	2	2

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	568	367	201
18-19	9,240	5,504	3,736
20-21	10,374	5,815	4,559
22-24	2,731	1,168	1,563
25-29	393	170	223
30-34	82	32	50
35-39	28	16	12
40-49	27	17	10
50-64	15	10	5
Over 65	1	0	1

Graduate

Student Age Distribution (Graduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women

Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially who want to continue education and work in field. At University of California-Santa Barbara, 10 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 2,747 students are enrolled in some online courses.

10 students lived in California or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and - students live in other State or outside of the United States.

Online Student Population
	All Students	Enrolled Exclusively Online Courses	Enrolled in Some Online Courses
All Students	26,420	10	2,747
Undergraduate	23,459	10	2,461
Graduate	2,961	0	286

Online Student Population by Locality
	California Residents	Other States in U.S.
All Students	10	-
Undergraduate	10	-
Graduate	0	-

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 23,459 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 2,097 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 8.94%.2,021 students have transferred in as full-time status and 76 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	20,772
Transfer-in Full-time	2,021
Regular Part-time	590
Transfer-in Part-time	76

Student Population at University of California-Santa Barbara

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