San Diego State Student Population and Demographics

San Diego State Student Population

There are 36,334 students including 31,491 undergraduate and 4,843 graduate students at San Diego State University for academic year 2020-2021. By attending status, there are 31,149 full-time and 5,185 part-time students with gender distribution of 15,546 male and 20,788 female students. San Diego State University is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 30,790 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

San Diego State University has a total enrollment of 36,334 with a gender distribution of 42.79% male (15,546 students) and 57.21% female (20,788 students). There are 13,798 male and 17,693 female students in undergraduate school and 1,748 male and 3,095 female students are attending graduate school at San Diego State University.

Student Population By Gender
San Diego State University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	36,334	15,546	20,788
Undergraduate	31,491	13,798	17,693
Graduate	4,843	1,748	3,095
Full-time	31,149	13,091	18,058
Part-time	5,185	2,455	2,730

[Chart] San Diego State University 2021 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

San Diego State University has 31,149 full-time and 5,185 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 28,084 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 3,407 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 3,065 students are full-time and 1,778 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
San Diego State University
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	36,334	31,149	5,185
Undergraduate	31,491	28,084	3,407
Graduate	4,843	3,065	1,778
Men	15,546	13,091	2,455
Women	20,788	18,058	2,730

[Chart] San Diego State University Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At San Diego State University, 30,790 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 5,031 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 36,334 students. In undergraduate schools, 31,408 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 4,413 students are attending some online courses.

2021 Distance Learning Enrollment
San Diego State University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	36,334	31,491	4,843
Online Exclusively	30,790	27,797	2,993
In Some Online Classes	5,031	3,611	1,420
Not In Online Classes	513	83	430

[Chart] San Diego State University Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at San Diego State University. There are 126 American Indian/Native American, 12,333 White, 1,540 Black/African American, 4,608 Asian, 12,062 Hispanic, 101 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 1,556 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
San Diego State University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	36,334	15,546	20,788
American Indian/Native American	126	45	81
Asian	4,608	2,132	2,476
Black/African American	1,540	626	914
Hispanic	12,062	4,768	7,294
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	101	43	58
White	12,333	5,245	7,088
Two More	2,334	953	1,381
Race Un-Known	1,272	603	669

[Chart] San Diego State UniversityRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

Next table and chart show the student enrollment by age distribution at San Diego State University.

Age Distribution
San Diego State University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	36,334	31,491	4,843
Under 18	387	387	0
Age 18-19	9,237	9,236	1
Age 20-21	11,253	11,180	73
Age 22-24	7,606	6,262	1,344
Age 25-29	4,274	2,600	1,674
Age 30-34	1,793	983	810
Age 35-39	750	381	369
Age 40-49	718	315	403
Age 50-64	291	137	154
Over 64	25	10	15
Age Un-Known	0	0	0

[Chart] San Diego State University 2021 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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