Stony Brook University Student Population and Demographics

SUNY Stony Brook Student Population

There are 26,689 students including 18,263 undergraduate and 8,426 graduate students at Stony Brook University for the academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 23,140 full-time and 3,549 part-time students with gender distribution of 12,622 male and 14,067 female students.

Stony Brook University is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 1,783 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

Stony Brook University has a total enrollment of 26,689 with a gender distribution of 47.29% male (12,622 students) and 52.71% female (14,067 students). There are 8,900 male and 9,363 female students in undergraduate school and 3,722 male and 4,704 female students are attending graduate school at Stony Brook University.

Student Population By Gender
Stony Brook University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	26,689	12,622	14,067
Undergraduate	18,263	8,900	9,363
Graduate	8,426	3,722	4,704
Full-time	23,140	11,359	11,781
Part-time	3,549	1,263	2,286

[Chart] Stony Brook University 2025 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

Stony Brook University has 23,140 full-time and 3,549 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 17,231 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 1,032 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 5,909 students are full-time and 2,517 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
Stony Brook University
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	26,689	23,140	3,549
Undergraduate	18,263	17,231	1,032
Graduate	8,426	5,909	2,517
Men	12,622	11,359	1,263
Women	14,067	11,781	2,286

[Chart] Stony Brook University Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At Stony Brook University, 1,783 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 11,369 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 26,689 students.

In undergraduate schools, 9,923 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 3,229 students are attending some online courses.

2025 Distance Learning Enrollment
Stony Brook University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	26,689	18,263	8,426
Online Exclusively	1,783	214	1,569
In Some Online Classes	11,369	9,709	1,660
Not In Online Classes	13,537	8,340	5,197

[Chart] Stony Brook University Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at Stony Brook University. There are 20 American Indian/Native American, 7,797 White, 1,552 Black/African American, 7,538 Asian, 3,622 Hispanic, 13 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 1,051 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
Stony Brook University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	26,689	12,622	14,067
American Indian/Native American	20	9	11
Asian	7,538	3,716	3,822
Black/African American	1,552	509	1,043
Hispanic	3,622	1,453	2,169
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	13	5	8
White	7,797	3,441	4,356
Two More	760	346	414
Race Un-Known	1,523	705	818

[Chart] Stony Brook UniversityRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

The following table and chart show the student enrollment by age distribution at Stony Brook University.

Age Distribution
Stony Brook University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	26,689	18,263	8,426
Under 18	919	919	0
Age 18-19	7,418	7,415	3
Age 20-21	7,172	6,829	343
Age 22-24	4,837	2,163	2,674
Age 25-29	3,447	600	2,847
Age 30-34	1,328	165	1,163
Age 35-39	671	86	585
Age 40-49	639	60	579
Age 50-64	242	26	216
Over 64	16	0	16
Age Un-Known	0	0	0

[Chart] Stony Brook University 2025 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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