Student Population at University of South Carolina-Columbia

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
35,653	27,343	8,310

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 35,653 students have enrolled in University of South Carolina-Columbia with 27,343 undergraduate and 8,310 graduate students.

By gender, 15,070 male and 20,583 female students are attending the school.

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

3,171 students are enrolled exclusively, and 18,584 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 South Carolina-Columbia has a total of 35,653 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 27,343 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 8,310 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 15,070 male and 20,583 female students (the male-female ratio is 42:58) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	35,653	27,343	8,310
Men	15,070	11,975	3,095
Women	20,583	15,368	5,215

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 24,827 White, 3,576 Black, and 1,439 Asian students out of a total of 35,653 are attending at University of South Carolina-Columbia. 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	53	18	35
Asian	1,439	637	802
Black	3,576	1,267	2,309
Hispanic	1,917	823	1,094
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	23	11	12
White	24,827	10,386	14,441
Two or more races	1,411	565	846
Race Unknown	613	318	295

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	37	13	24
Asian	1,151	518	633
Black	2,511	1,029	1,482
Hispanic	1,570	694	876
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	21	10	11
White	19,871	8,645	11,226
Two or more races	1,138	471	667
Race Unknown	302	144	158

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	16	5	11
Asian	288	119	169
Black	1,065	238	827
Hispanic	347	129	218
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	2	1	1
White	4,956	1,741	3,215
Two or more races	273	94	179
Race Unknown	311	174	137

Student Age Distribution

By age, South Carolina has 383 students under 18 years old and 91 students over 65 years old. There are 29,381 students under 25 years old, and 6,272 students over 25 years old out of 35,653 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 383 students are younger than 18 and 46 students are older than 65. South Carolina has 26,543 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 800 students aged 25 and over.

It has 2,838 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,472 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	383	258	125
18-19	12,401	7,498	4,903
20-21	11,856	6,610	5,246
22-24	4,741	2,485	2,256
25-29	2,865	1,616	1,249
30-34	1,328	735	593
35-39	714	449	265
40-49	890	624	266
50-64	384	267	117
Over 65	91	41	50

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	383	258	125
18-19	12,399	7,497	4,902
20-21	11,540	6,374	5,166
22-24	2,221	859	1,362
25-29	371	158	213
30-34	161	73	88
35-39	77	41	36
40-49	85	51	34
50-64	60	37	23
Over 65	46	20	26

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 South Carolina-Columbia, 3,171 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 18,584 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,446 students lived in South Carolina or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 725 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	35,653	3,171	18,584
Undergraduate	27,343	745	17,415
Graduate	8,310	2,426	1,169

Online Student Population by Locality
	South Carolina Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	2,446	717	8
Undergraduate	653	91	1
Graduate	1,793	626	7

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 27,343 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,315 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 4.81%.1,236 students have transferred in as full-time status and 79 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	25,006
Transfer-in Full-time	1,236
Regular Part-time	1,022
Transfer-in Part-time	79

Student Population at University of South Carolina-Columbia

Student Population by Gender

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