Student Population at Stony Brook University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
25,710	17,509	8,201

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 25,710 students have enrolled in Stony Brook University with 17,509 undergraduate and 8,201 graduate students.

By gender, 12,181 male and 13,529 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)).

2,171 students are enrolled exclusively, and 13,828 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

Stony Brook University has a total of 25,710 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 17,509 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 8,201 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 12,181 male and 13,529 female students (the male-female ratio is 47:53) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	25,710	17,509	8,201
Men	12,181	8,610	3,571
Women	13,529	8,899	4,630

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 7,844 White, 1,464 Black, and 6,829 Asian students out of a total of 25,710 are attending at Stony Brook 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	17	7	10
Asian	6,829	3,369	3,460
Black	1,464	521	943
Hispanic	3,316	1,327	1,989
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	17	9	8
White	7,844	3,504	4,340
Two or more races	625	273	352
Race Unknown	2,002	885	1,117

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	12	4	8
Asian	5,917	2,984	2,933
Black	1,050	375	675
Hispanic	2,590	1,089	1,501
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	11	6	5
White	4,785	2,409	2,376
Two or more races	480	216	264
Race Unknown	928	478	450

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	5	3	2
Asian	912	385	527
Black	414	146	268
Hispanic	726	238	488
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	6	3	3
White	3,059	1,095	1,964
Two or more races	145	57	88
Race Unknown	1,074	407	667

Student Age Distribution

By age, SUNY Stony Brook has 927 students under 18 years old and 16 students over 65 years old. There are 19,342 students under 25 years old, and 6,368 students over 25 years old out of 25,710 total students.

SUNY Stony Brook has 16,459 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,050 students aged 25 and over.

It has 2,883 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,318 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	927	492	435
18-19	6,629	3,522	3,107
20-21	6,967	3,517	3,450
22-24	4,819	2,386	2,433
25-29	3,530	1,802	1,728
30-34	1,340	794	546
35-39	587	384	203
40-49	634	431	203
50-64	261	194	67
Over 65	16	7	9

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	927	492	435
18-19	6,627	3,522	3,105
20-21	6,709	3,384	3,325
22-24	2,196	976	1,220
25-29	650	299	351
30-34	204	113	91
35-39	94	56	38
40-49	75	42	33
50-64	27	15	12

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 Stony Brook University, 2,171 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 13,828 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,999 students lived in New York or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 172 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	25,710	2,171	13,828
Undergraduate	17,509	636	11,919
Graduate	8,201	1,535	1,909

Online Student Population by Locality
	New York Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	1,999	142	30
Undergraduate	570	40	26
Graduate	1,429	102	4

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 17,509 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,179 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 6.73%.1,093 students have transferred in as full-time status and 86 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	15,313
Transfer-in Full-time	1,093
Regular Part-time	1,017
Transfer-in Part-time	86

Student Population at Stony Brook University

Student Population by Gender

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

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