University of California-San Diego Student Population and Demographics

UCSD Student Population

There are 44,256 students including 34,955 undergraduate and 9,301 graduate students at University of California-San Diego for the academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 42,601 full-time and 1,655 part-time students with gender distribution of 20,975 male and 23,281 female students.

University of California-San Diego is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 236 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

University of California-San Diego has a total enrollment of 44,256 with a gender distribution of 47.39% male (20,975 students) and 52.61% female (23,281 students). There are 15,782 male and 19,173 female students in undergraduate school and 5,193 male and 4,108 female students are attending graduate school at University of California-San Diego.

Student Population By Gender
University of California-San Diego
	Total	Men	Women
Total	44,256	20,975	23,281
Undergraduate	34,955	15,782	19,173
Graduate	9,301	5,193	4,108
Full-time	42,601	20,004	22,597
Part-time	1,655	971	684

[Chart] University of California-San Diego 2025 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

University of California-San Diego has 42,601 full-time and 1,655 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 34,114 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 841 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 8,487 students are full-time and 814 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
University of California-San Diego
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	44,256	42,601	1,655
Undergraduate	34,955	34,114	841
Graduate	9,301	8,487	814
Men	20,975	20,004	971
Women	23,281	22,597	684

[Chart] University of California-San Diego Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At University of California-San Diego, 236 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 7,655 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 44,256 students.

In undergraduate schools, 7,160 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 731 students are attending some online courses.

2025 Distance Learning Enrollment
University of California-San Diego
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	44,256	34,955	9,301
Online Exclusively	236	104	132
In Some Online Classes	7,655	7,056	599
Not In Online Classes	36,365	27,795	8,570

[Chart] University of California-San Diego Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at University of California-San Diego. There are 41 American Indian/Native American, 7,847 White, 739 Black/African American, 13,694 Asian, 10,133 Hispanic, 26 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 1,730 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
University of California-San Diego
	Total	Men	Women
Total	44,256	20,975	23,281
American Indian/Native American	41	19	22
Asian	13,694	6,570	7,124
Black/African American	739	279	460
Hispanic	10,133	3,967	6,166
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	26	11	15
White	7,847	3,662	4,185
Two More	2,634	1,175	1,459
Race Un-Known	1,113	555	558

[Chart] University of California-San DiegoRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

The following table and chart show the student enrollment by age distribution at University of California-San Diego.

Age Distribution
University of California-San Diego
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	44,256	34,955	9,301
Under 18	933	933	0
Age 18-19	13,950	13,946	4
Age 20-21	15,197	14,832	365
Age 22-24	7,915	3,961	3,954
Age 25-29	4,329	891	3,438
Age 30-34	1,207	226	981
Age 35-39	406	90	316
Age 40-49	248	60	188
Age 50-64	64	16	48
Over 64	7	0	7
Age Un-Known	0	0	0

[Chart] University of California-San Diego 2025 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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