Student Population at Columbia Southern University

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
15,948	11,330	4,618

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 15,948 students have enrolled in Columbia Southern University with 11,330 undergraduate and 4,618 graduate students.

By gender, 9,946 male and 6,002 female students are attending the school.

It has relatively many students compared to similar colleges (13,540 students in average - private (for-profit) Master's College and University (larger programs)).

Columbia Southern is a completely online college and 15,948 students are enrolled exclusively.

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

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Student Population by Gender

Columbia Southern University has a total of 15,948 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 11,330 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 4,618 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 9,946 male and 6,002 female students (the male-female ratio is 62:38) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	15,948	11,330	4,618
Men	9,946	7,420	2,526
Women	6,002	3,910	2,092

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 9,129 White, 2,894 Black, and 314 Asian students out of a total of 15,948 are attending at Columbia Southern 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	158	87	71
Asian	314	196	118
Black	2,894	1,406	1,488
Hispanic	340	225	115
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	79	38	41
White	9,129	6,232	2,897
Two or more races	416	222	194
Race Unknown	2,614	1,537	1,077

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	114	64	50
Asian	174	104	70
Black	1,803	958	845
Hispanic	221	149	72
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	56	30	26
White	7,015	4,889	2,126
Two or more races	298	171	127
Race Unknown	1,647	1,054	593

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	44	23	21
Asian	140	92	48
Black	1,091	448	643
Hispanic	119	76	43
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	23	8	15
White	2,114	1,343	771
Two or more races	118	51	67
Race Unknown	967	483	484

Student Age Distribution

By age, Columbia Southern has 36 students under 18 years old and 90 students over 65 years old. There are 1,000 students under 25 years old, and 14,948 students over 25 years old out of 15,948 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 36 students are younger than 18 and 37 students are older than 65. Columbia Southern has 905 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 10,425 students aged 25 and over.

It has 95 graduate students aged under 25 and 4,523 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	36	17	19
18-19	79	40	39
20-21	272	134	138
22-24	613	304	309
25-29	2,005	885	1,120
30-34	2,740	1,032	1,708
35-39	3,115	1,108	2,007
40-49	4,759	1,630	3,129
50-64	2,239	814	1,425
Over 65	90	38	52

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	36	17	19
18-19	79	40	39
20-21	270	133	137
22-24	520	242	278
25-29	1,563	635	928
30-34	1,981	658	1,323
35-39	2,129	654	1,475
40-49	3,237	1,002	2,235
50-64	1,478	512	966
Over 65	37	17	20

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 Columbia Southern University, 15,948 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 0 students are enrolled in some online courses.

947 students lived in Alabama or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 15,001 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

Online Student Population
	All Students	Enrolled Exclusively Online Courses
All Students	15,948	15,948
Undergraduate	11,330	11,330
Graduate	4,618	4,618

Online Student Population by Locality
	Alabama Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	947	14,440	561
Undergraduate	695	10,526	109
Graduate	252	3,914	452

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 11,330 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,436 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 12.67%.903 students have transferred in as full-time status and 533 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	5,525
Transfer-in Full-time	903
Regular Part-time	4,369
Transfer-in Part-time	533

Student Population at Columbia Southern University

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