San Diego State University Student Population

How many students at San Diego State? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 37,402 students have enrolled in San Diego State University with 32,194 undergraduate and 5,208 graduate students.

By gender, 15,692 male and 21,710 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (16,325 students in average - public Research University (high research activity)).

1,456 students are enrolled exclusively, and 19,356 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 Diego State University has a total of 37,402 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 32,194 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 5,208 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 15,692 male and 21,710 female students (the male-female ratio is 42:58) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 12,762 White, 1,468 Black, and 4,757 Asian students out of a total of 37,402 are attending at San Diego State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in chart below (academic year 2022-2023 data).

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, San Diego State has 480 students under 18 years old and 23 students over 65 years old. There are 30,087 students under 25 years old, and 7,315 students over 25 years old out of 37,402 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 480 students are younger than 18 and 10 students are older than 65. San Diego State has 28,430 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 3,764 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,657 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,551 students aged 25 and over.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

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 Diego State University, 1,456 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 19,356 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,367 students lived in California or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 89 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 32,194 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 4,273 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 13.27%.3,810 students have transferred in as full-time status and 463 students transferred in as part-time status.