Student Population at University of California-Santa Cruz

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
19,478	17,502	1,976

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 19,478 students have enrolled in University of California-Santa Cruz with 17,502 undergraduate and 1,976 graduate students.

By gender, 9,821 male and 9,657 female students are attending the school.

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

98 students are enrolled exclusively, and 4,070 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 Cruz has a total of 19,478 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 17,502 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 1,976 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 9,821 male and 9,657 female students (the male-female ratio is 50:50) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	19,478	17,502	1,976
Men	9,821	8,778	1,043
Women	9,657	8,724	933

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 6,288 White, 358 Black, and 4,246 Asian students out of a total of 19,478 are attending at University of California-Santa Cruz. 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	20	10	10
Asian	4,246	2,437	1,809
Black	358	158	200
Hispanic	5,172	2,137	3,035
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	27	12	15
White	6,288	3,188	3,100
Two or more races	1,546	737	809
Race Unknown	398	227	171

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	18	9	9
Asian	4,063	2,341	1,722
Black	326	140	186
Hispanic	4,911	2,013	2,898
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	26	12	14
White	5,566	2,819	2,747
Two or more races	1,449	693	756
Race Unknown	349	198	151

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	2	1	1
Asian	183	96	87
Black	32	18	14
Hispanic	261	124	137
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	1	0	1
White	722	369	353
Two or more races	97	44	53
Race Unknown	49	29	20

Student Age Distribution

By age, UC Santa Cruz has 473 students under 18 years old and 4 students over 65 years old. There are 17,221 students under 25 years old, and 2,257 students over 25 years old out of 19,478 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 473 students are younger than 18 and 1 students are older than 65. UC Santa Cruz has 16,719 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 783 students aged 25 and over.

It has 502 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,474 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	473	286	187
18-19	7,321	4,087	3,234
20-21	6,711	3,177	3,534
22-24	2,716	1,026	1,690
25-29	1,334	645	689
30-34	539	242	297
35-39	210	102	108
40-49	119	59	60
50-64	51	32	19
Over 65	4	1	3

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	473	286	187
18-19	7,321	4,087	3,234
20-21	6,662	3,155	3,507
22-24	2,263	841	1,422
25-29	542	243	299
30-34	139	61	78
35-39	42	18	24
40-49	38	18	20
50-64	21	14	7
Over 65	1	1	0

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 Cruz, 98 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 4,070 students are enrolled in some online courses.

81 students lived in California or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 17 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	19,478	98	4,070
Undergraduate	17,502	97	4,006
Graduate	1,976	1	64

Online Student Population by Locality
	California Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	81	4	13
Undergraduate	81	3	13
Graduate	0	1	0

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 17,502 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,227 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.01%.1,178 students have transferred in as full-time status and 49 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	15,550
Transfer-in Full-time	1,178
Regular Part-time	725
Transfer-in Part-time	49

Student Population at University of California-Santa Cruz

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