Boston College Student Population and Demographics

Boston Student Population

There are 15,577 students including 9,955 undergraduate and 5,622 graduate students at Boston College for academic year 2021-2022. By attending status, there are 13,661 full-time and 1,916 part-time students with gender distribution of 7,064 male and 8,513 female students. Boston College is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 650 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

Boston College has a total enrollment of 15,577 with a gender distribution of 45.35% male (7,064 students) and 54.65% female (8,513 students). There are 4,691 male and 5,264 female students in undergraduate school and 2,373 male and 3,249 female students are attending graduate school at Boston College.

Student Population By Gender
Boston College
	Total	Men	Women
Total	15,577	7,064	8,513
Undergraduate	9,955	4,691	5,264
Graduate	5,622	2,373	3,249
Full-time	13,661	6,190	7,471
Part-time	1,916	874	1,042

[Chart] Boston College 2022 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

Boston College has 13,661 full-time and 1,916 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 9,749 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 206 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 3,912 students are full-time and 1,710 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
Boston College
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	15,577	13,661	1,916
Undergraduate	9,955	9,749	206
Graduate	5,622	3,912	1,710
Men	7,064	6,190	874
Women	8,513	7,471	1,042

[Chart] Boston College Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At Boston College, 650 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 6,590 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 15,577 students. In undergraduate schools, 4,917 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 2,323 students are attending some online courses.

2022 Distance Learning Enrollment
Boston College
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	15,577	9,955	5,622
Online Exclusively	650	65	585
In Some Online Classes	6,590	4,852	1,738
Not In Online Classes	8,337	5,038	3,299

[Chart] Boston College Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at Boston College. There are 10 American Indian/Native American, 7,759 White, 615 Black/African American, 1,300 Asian, 1,365 Hispanic, 3 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 987 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
Boston College
	Total	Men	Women
Total	15,577	7,064	8,513
American Indian/Native American	10	4	6
Asian	1,300	626	674
Black/African American	615	286	329
Hispanic	1,365	595	770
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	3	2	1
White	7,759	3,598	4,161
Two More	498	217	281
Race Un-Known	2,103	770	1,333

[Chart] Boston CollegeRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

The following table and chart show the student enrollment by age distribution at Boston College.

Age Distribution
Boston College
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	15,577	9,955	5,622
Under 18	149	149	0
Age 18-19	4,536	4,536	0
Age 20-21	4,521	4,448	73
Age 22-24	2,418	547	1,871
Age 25-29	1,943	56	1,887
Age 30-34	817	28	789
Age 35-39	338	17	321
Age 40-49	337	27	310
Age 50-64	190	25	165
Over 64	12	2	10
Age Un-Known	316	120	196

[Chart] Boston College 2022 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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