Enrollment Trends at UC Santa Cruz

The student population at University of California-Santa Cruz is 19,478 (17,502 undergraduate and 1,976 graduate students) . The number of students has increased by 2,275 over the past decade.

The percentage of undergraduate students at UC Santa Cruz is 89.86% which is increased by 1,807 over last 10 years. The graduate student population increased by 468 and it has been increasing. The female to male ratio is 0.98 to 1 which means that the numbers of female and male students are similar.

98 students enrolled in online degree program exclusively and the number of online students has increased by 379.95% since 2014.

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Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 18,885 where 19,478 students are attending the school for the academic year 2022-2023.

89.86% of total students is undergraduate students and 10.14% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 1,807 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 468 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.98 to 1 and it means that there are similar numbers of female and male students enrolled in UC Santa Cruz.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at University of California-Santa Cruz since 2013.

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	17,203	15,695	7,342	8,353	1,508	818	690
2014-15	17,866 663	16,277 582	7,686 344	8,591 238	1,589 81	879 61	710 20
2015-16	17,868 2	16,231 -46	7,707 21	8,524 -67	1,637 48	937 58	700 -10
2016-17	18,783 915	16,962 731	8,331 624	8,631 107	1,821 184	1,057 120	764 64
2017-18	19,457 674	17,577 615	8,781 450	8,796 165	1,880 59	1,062 5	818 54
2018-19	19,700 243	17,792 215	9,181 400	8,611 -185	1,908 28	1,064 2	844 26
2019-20	19,494 -206	17,517 -275	9,127 -54	8,390 -221	1,977 69	1,051 -13	926 82
2020-21	19,161 -333	17,207 -310	9,091 -36	8,116 -274	1,954 -23	1,041 -10	913 -13
2021-22	19,841 680	17,864 657	9,319 228	8,545 429	1,977 23	1,056 15	921 8
2022-23	19,478 -363	17,502 -362	8,778 -541	8,724 179	1,976 -1	1,043 -13	933 12
Average	18,885	17,062	8,534	8,528	1,823	1,001	822

University of California-Santa Cruz Enrollment Trends Chart

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 17,062 where 17,502 students are attending the Undergraduate school for the academic year 2022-2023. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Undergraduate enrollment by attending status and gender at University of California-Santa Cruz since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	15,695	15,323	7,148	8,175	372	194	178
2014-15	16,277	15,825	7,447	8,378	452	239	213
2015-16	16,231	15,823	7,522	8,301	408	185	223
2016-17	16,962	16,509	8,098	8,411	453	233	220
2017-18	17,577	17,082	8,523	8,559	495	258	237
2018-19	17,792	17,255	8,878	8,377	537	303	234
2019-20	17,517	16,994	8,835	8,159	523	292	231
2020-21	17,207	16,521	8,695	7,826	686	396	290
2021-22	17,864	17,087	8,877	8,210	777	442	335
2022-23	17,502	16,728	8,327	8,401	774	451	323
Average	17,062	17,062	8,235	8,280	17,062	299	248

University of California-Santa Cruz Undergraduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 1,823 where 1,976 students are attending the Graduate school for the academic year 2022-2023. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Graduate enrollment by attending status and gender at University of California-Santa Cruz since 2013.

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
Year	Total	Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2013-14	1,508	1,432	762	670	76	56	20
2014-15	1,589	1,529	836	693	60	43	17
2015-16	1,637	1,568	893	675	69	44	25
2016-17	1,821	1,740	1,008	732	81	49	32
2017-18	1,880	1,810	1,022	788	70	40	30
2018-19	1,908	1,838	1,013	825	70	51	19
2019-20	1,977	1,913	1,014	899	64	37	27
2020-21	1,954	1,889	1,012	877	65	29	36
2021-22	1,977	1,917	1,021	896	60	35	25
2022-23	1,976	1,918	1,008	910	58	35	23
Average	1,823	1,823	959	797	1,823	42	25

University of California-Santa Cruz Graduate Enrollment Trends Chart

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 32.28% and the percentage of black students is 1.84% at University of California-Santa Cruz. 21.80% of enrolled students is Asian.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at University of California-Santa Cruz over the past 11 years (2013-2023).

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
Year	2013-14	31	3,351	341	4,910	27	6,552	1,158
2014-15	30	3,436	339	5,327	29	6,404	1,276
2015-16	21	3,519	335	5,239	38	6,129	1,265
2016-17	22	3,806	357	5,269	29	6,223	1,422
2017-18	19	4,041	359	5,207	33	6,295	1,491
2018-19	17	4,128	363	5,129	29	6,187	1,524
2019-20	17	3,995	334	4,839	19	6,240	1,532
2020-21	18	4,135	369	4,932	20	5,958	1,513
2021-22	19	4,245	387	5,222	27	6,410	1,547
2022-23	20	4,246	358	5,172	27	6,288	1,546
Average	21	3,890	354	5,125	28	6,269	1,427

University of California-Santa Cruz Enrollment by Race Trends Chart

Distance Learning (Online Courses) Enrollment Changes

98 students are enrolled in online degree programs exclusively for the academic year 2022-2023, which is 1% of total students. The number of online students has increased 379.95% since 2014. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in the online student population by enrolled type at University of California-Santa Cruz from 2014 to 2023.

Year	Total Enrollment	Online Completely	Enrolled in Some Online Courses	Not Enrolled in Online Courses
2014-15	17,866	0	848	17,018
2015-16	17,868	0	1,291	16,577
2016-17	18,783	0	803	17,980
2017-18	19,457	0	1,323	18,134
2018-19	19,700	0	853	18,847
2019-20	19,494	3	745	18,746
2020-21	19,161	16,945	1,647	569
2021-22	19,841	5,761	11,400	2,680
2022-23	19,478	98	4,070	15,310
Average	19,072	2,534	2,553	13,985

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