Student Population at San Jose State University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
35,751	26,863	8,888

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 35,751 students have enrolled in San Jose State University with 26,863 undergraduate and 8,888 graduate students.

By gender, 17,300 male and 18,451 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (9,858 students in average - public Master's College and University (larger programs)).

5,790 students are enrolled exclusively, and 19,698 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

San Jose State University has a total of 35,751 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 26,863 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 8,888 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 17,300 male and 18,451 female students (the male-female ratio is 48:52) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	35,751	26,863	8,888
Men	17,300	13,999	3,301
Women	18,451	12,864	5,587

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 5,934 White, 1,181 Black, and 12,304 Asian students out of a total of 35,751 are attending at San Jose State University. 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	46	22	24
Asian	12,304	6,538	5,766
Black	1,181	580	601
Hispanic	10,143	4,268	5,875
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	147	85	62
White	5,934	2,569	3,365
Two or more races	1,653	823	830
Race Unknown	1,292	616	676

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	21	13	8
Asian	10,498	5,847	4,651
Black	965	517	448
Hispanic	8,396	3,761	4,635
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	128	79	49
White	3,424	1,891	1,533
Two or more races	1,372	731	641
Race Unknown	883	488	395

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	25	9	16
Asian	1,806	691	1,115
Black	216	63	153
Hispanic	1,747	507	1,240
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	19	6	13
White	2,510	678	1,832
Two or more races	281	92	189
Race Unknown	409	128	281

Student Age Distribution

By age, San Jose State has 442 students under 18 years old and 37 students over 65 years old. There are 24,579 students under 25 years old, and 11,172 students over 25 years old out of 35,751 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 442 students are younger than 18 and 10 students are older than 65. San Jose State has 22,428 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 4,435 students aged 25 and over.

It has 2,151 graduate students aged under 25 and 6,737 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	442	237	205
18-19	7,351	3,467	3,884
20-21	7,975	4,053	3,922
22-24	8,811	4,027	4,784
25-29	6,078	3,241	2,837
30-34	2,337	1,470	867
35-39	1,058	712	346
40-49	1,105	803	302
50-64	557	415	142
Over 65	37	26	11

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	442	237	205
18-19	7,350	3,466	3,884
20-21	7,888	4,004	3,884
22-24	6,748	2,980	3,768
25-29	2,937	1,343	1,594
30-34	815	414	401
35-39	321	185	136
40-49	259	168	91
50-64	93	62	31
Over 65	10	5	5

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 San Jose State University, 5,790 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 19,698 students are enrolled in some online courses.

4,613 students lived in California or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 1,177 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	35,751	5,790	19,698
Undergraduate	26,863	2,081	17,154
Graduate	8,888	3,709	2,544

Online Student Population by Locality
	California Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	4,613	842	335
Undergraduate	2,033	5	43
Graduate	2,580	837	292

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 26,863 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 3,289 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 12.24%.2,619 students have transferred in as full-time status and 670 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	19,007
Transfer-in Full-time	2,619
Regular Part-time	4,567
Transfer-in Part-time	670

Student Population at San Jose State University

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Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

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