Columbia University in the City of New York Student Population

How many students at Columbia University? For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 34,782 students have enrolled in Columbia University in the City of New York with 8,902 undergraduate and 25,880 graduate students.

By gender, 16,150 male and 18,632 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (19,694 students in average - private (not-for-profit) Research University (very high research activity)).

1,111 students are enrolled exclusively, and 3,842 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

Columbia University in the City of New York has a total of 34,782 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 8,902 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 25,880 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 16,150 male and 18,632 female students (the male-female ratio is 46:54) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 8,998 White, 1,777 Black, and 4,549 Asian students out of a total of 34,782 are attending at Columbia University in the City of New York. 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, Columbia University has 80 students under 18 years old and 32 students over 65 years old. There are 18,365 students under 25 years old, and 12,869 students over 25 years old out of 33,776 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 79 students are younger than 18 and 7 students are older than 65. Columbia University has 7,637 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,195 students aged 25 and over.

In graduate schools at Columbia University, 1 students are younger than 18 and 25 students are older than 65. It has 10,728 graduate students aged under 25 and 11,674 students aged 25 and over.

*The age distribution is based on 2021-2022 enrollment data.

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• Undergraduate
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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 University in the City of New York, 1,111 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 3,842 students are enrolled in some online courses.

401 students lived in New York or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 710 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

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Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 8,902 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 693 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.78%.565 students have transferred in as full-time status and 128 students transferred in as part-time status.