Total Student Population Comparison
The total student population of Colleges in North Carolina is 586,836 with 348,941 female students and 237,895 male students. This enrollment statistics is based on the latest data from IPEDS, U.S. Department of Education for academic year 2024-2025. The following table compares the student population for both undergraduate and graduate schools between Colleges in North Carolina.
Among the Colleges in North Carolina, State University at Raleigh has the most enrolled students of 38,464, while Pinnacle Institute of Cosmetology has the least number of students of 18 for both in graduate and undergraduate programs.
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Undergraduate Student Population
The total undergraduate population of Colleges in North Carolina is 506,474 with 299,673 female students and 206,801 male students. The following table compares 2024-2025 undergraduate enrollment between Colleges in North Carolina.
Among the Colleges in North Carolina, State University at Raleigh has the most enrolled undergraduate students of 28,422, while Pinnacle Institute of Cosmetology has the least number of undergraduate students of 18.
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Graduate Student Population
The total graduate population of Colleges in North Carolina is 80,362 with 49,268 female students and 31,094 male students. The following table compares 2023-2024 graduate enrollment between Colleges in North Carolina.
Among the Colleges in North Carolina, University of at Chapel Hill has the most enrolled graduate students of 11,553, while Saint Augustine's University has the least number of graduate students of 2.
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Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment
The following table compares 2023-2024 distance learning enrollment for both undergraduate and graduate programs between Colleges in North Carolina. In undergraduate programs, out of total 500,874 students, 132,409 students (26.44%) have taken courses only through distance learning and 179,855 students (35.91%) have learned from at least one online course. For graduate schools, out of total 80,293 students, 27,364 students (34.08%) have taken courses only through distance learning and 13,310 students (16.58%) have learned from at least one online course.
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| Name | Undergraduate | Graduate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Online Exclusively | Some Online Classes | Total | Online Exclusively | Some Online Classes | ||
| College of the Albemarle | 2,905 | 2,105 (72.46%) |
666 (22.93%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Strayer University-South Raleigh Campus | Strayer University-South Raleigh Campus does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| South Piedmont Community College | 4,013 | 1,553 (38.70%) |
1,369 (34.11%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Appalachian State University | 19,560 | 1,534 (7.84%) |
9,725 (49.72%) | 2,010 | 1,017 (50.60%) |
252 (12.54%) | |
| Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College | 6,510 | 2,186 (33.58%) |
1,950 (29.95%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Barton College | 1,149 | 232 (20.19%) |
656 (57.09%) | 86 | 22 (25.58%) |
47 (54.65%) | |
| Beaufort County Community College | 1,856 | 652 (35.13%) |
563 (30.33%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Belmont Abbey College | 1,298 | 65 (5.01%) |
485 (37.37%) | 90 | 90 (100.00%) |
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| Bennett College | 180 | 53 (29.44%) |
67 (37.22%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Bladen Community College | 1,173 | 624 (53.20%) |
298 (25.40%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Blue Ridge Community College | 2,723 | 1,139 (41.83%) |
1,578 (57.95%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Brevard College | 821 | - | - | 54 | 42 (77.78%) |
11 (20.37%) | |
| Brunswick Community College | 2,009 | 978 (48.68%) |
592 (29.47%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Cabarrus College of Health Sciences | 816 | 136 (16.67%) |
446 (54.66%) | 108 | 43 (39.81%) |
65 (60.19%) | |
| Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute | 3,914 | 1,383 (35.33%) |
1,318 (33.67%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Campbell University | 2,699 | 419 (15.52%) |
477 (17.67%) | 2,264 | 292 (12.90%) |
198 (8.75%) | |
| Cape Fear Community College | 14,082 | 4,436 (31.50%) |
3,462 (24.58%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Carteret Community College | 1,614 | 709 (43.93%) |
505 (31.29%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Catawba College | 1,262 | 150 (11.89%) |
325 (25.75%) | 114 | 80 (70.18%) |
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| Catawba Valley Community College | 4,904 | 3,098 (63.17%) |
1,295 (26.41%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Central Carolina Community College | 5,882 | 2,244 (38.15%) |
2,152 (36.59%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Central Piedmont Community College | 20,375 | 7,476 (36.69%) |
6,677 (32.77%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Chowan University | 603 | 24 (3.98%) |
172 (28.52%) | 72 | 67 (93.06%) |
5 (6.94%) | |
| Cleveland Community College | 1,558 | 326 (20.92%) |
442 (28.37%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Coastal Carolina Community College | 3,659 | 1,324 (36.18%) |
1,336 (36.51%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Craven Community College | 3,103 | - | 3,103 (100.00%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Davidson-Davie Community College | 4,305 | 2,041 (47.41%) |
1,346 (31.27%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Davidson College | Davidson College does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Duke University | 6,523 | 1 (0.02%) |
137 (2.10%) | 10,976 | 1,311 (11.94%) |
2,699 (24.59%) | |
| Durham Technical Community College | 5,157 | 3,106 (60.23%) |
1,227 (23.79%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| East Carolina University | 21,445 | 4,859 (22.66%) |
11,285 (52.62%) | 5,495 | 3,497 (63.64%) |
501 (9.12%) | |
| Edgecombe Community College | 1,397 | 853 (61.06%) |
216 (15.46%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Elizabeth City State University | 2,154 | 483 (22.42%) |
1,216 (56.45%) | 104 | 71 (68.27%) |
17 (16.35%) | |
| Elon University | 6,452 | - | - | 787 | - | - | |
| Fayetteville Technical Community College | 11,755 | 5,451 (46.37%) |
5,464 (46.48%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Fayetteville State University | 6,074 | 2,505 (41.24%) |
2,901 (47.76%) | 1,033 | 850 (82.28%) |
102 (9.87%) | |
| Forsyth Technical Community College | 9,099 | 4,007 (44.04%) |
2,589 (28.45%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Gardner-Webb University | 1,861 | 492 (26.44%) |
742 (39.87%) | 1,243 | 583 (46.90%) |
148 (11.91%) | |
| Gaston College | 6,443 | 3,266 (50.69%) |
2,645 (41.05%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Greensboro College | 899 | 119 (13.24%) |
308 (34.26%) | 68 | 68 (100.00%) |
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| Guilford College | 1,132 | - | 311 (27.47%) | 48 | - | 31 (64.58%) | |
| Guilford Technical Community College | 11,485 | 4,088 (35.59%) |
3,611 (31.44%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Halifax Community College | 1,061 | 484 (45.62%) |
429 (40.43%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Haywood Community College | 1,395 | 644 (46.16%) |
420 (30.11%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Heritage Bible College | 22 | 22 (100.00%) |
- | 4 | 4 (100.00%) |
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| High Point University | 5,135 | - | 78 (1.52%) | 1,196 | 294 (24.58%) |
305 (25.50%) | |
| Isothermal Community College | 1,918 | 891 (46.45%) |
395 (20.59%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| James Sprunt Community College | 1,519 | 800 (52.67%) |
426 (28.04%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Johnson C Smith University | 1,252 | 113 (9.03%) |
621 (49.60%) | 50 | - | - | |
| Johnston Community College | 5,371 | 2,222 (41.37%) |
2,580 (48.04%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Lees-McRae College | 873 | 153 (17.53%) |
19 (2.18%) | 37 | 37 (100.00%) |
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| Lenoir Community College | 2,591 | 1,230 (47.47%) |
938 (36.20%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Lenoir-Rhyne University | 1,472 | 70 (4.76%) |
812 (55.16%) | 784 | 277 (35.33%) |
295 (37.63%) | |
| Leons Beauty School Inc | Leons Beauty School Inc does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Livingstone College | 924 | 18 (1.95%) |
585 (63.31%) | 12 | - | - | |
| Louisburg College | Louisburg College does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Mars Hill University | 1,061 | 30 (2.83%) |
321 (30.25%) | 49 | 27 (55.10%) |
21 (42.86%) | |
| Martin Community College | 891 | 484 (54.32%) |
284 (31.87%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Mayland Community College | 850 | 232 (27.29%) |
302 (35.53%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| McDowell Technical Community College | 1,249 | 648 (51.88%) |
365 (29.22%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Meredith College | 1,206 | - | - | 259 | 20 (7.72%) |
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| Methodist University | 1,467 | 219 (14.93%) |
577 (39.33%) | 355 | 57 (16.06%) |
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| Miller-Motte College-Wilmington | 46 | 2 (4.35%) |
33 (71.74%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Mitchell Community College | 3,979 | 2,028 (50.97%) |
1,757 (44.16%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Montgomery Community College | 1,184 | 239 (20.19%) |
359 (30.32%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Montreat College | 781 | 124 (15.88%) |
96 (12.29%) | 181 | 99 (54.70%) |
82 (45.30%) | |
| University of Mount Olive | 1,944 | 1,011 (52.01%) |
708 (36.42%) | 165 | 165 (100.00%) |
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| College of Wilmington | College of Wilmington does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Nash Community College | 2,780 | 1,738 (62.52%) |
812 (29.21%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| North Carolina A & T State University | 12,497 | 989 (7.91%) |
7,351 (58.82%) | 1,814 | 667 (36.77%) |
311 (17.14%) | |
| University of North Carolina Asheville | 3,032 | 39 (1.29%) |
437 (14.41%) | 24 | - | 14 (58.33%) | |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 20,885 | 43 (0.21%) |
3,936 (18.85%) | 11,553 | 1,815 (15.71%) |
1,733 (15.00%) | |
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte | 24,868 | 1,124 (4.52%) |
12,086 (48.60%) | 6,223 | 1,801 (28.94%) |
1,553 (24.96%) | |
| University of North Carolina at Greensboro | 14,416 | 3,082 (21.38%) |
7,022 (48.71%) | 3,596 | 1,639 (45.58%) |
610 (16.96%) | |
| North Carolina Central University | 6,595 | 1,202 (18.23%) |
3,996 (60.59%) | 1,984 | 839 (42.29%) |
386 (19.46%) | |
| University of North Carolina School of the Arts | 946 | 3 (0.32%) |
180 (19.03%) | 165 | - | 5 (3.03%) | |
| North Carolina State University at Raleigh | 28,422 | 685 (2.41%) |
12,160 (42.78%) | 10,042 | 2,269 (22.60%) |
1,361 (13.55%) | |
| North Carolina Wesleyan University | 1,262 | 335 (26.55%) |
233 (18.46%) | 157 | 157 (100.00%) |
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| University of North Carolina Wilmington | 15,254 | 1,714 (11.24%) |
8,134 (53.32%) | 3,594 | 2,589 (72.04%) |
294 (8.18%) | |
| Pamlico Community College | 263 | 192 (73.00%) |
71 (27.00%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| William Peace University | 722 | 158 (21.88%) |
12 (1.66%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| University of North Carolina at Pembroke | 5,437 | 2,053 (37.76%) |
1,638 (30.13%) | 2,237 | 1,929 (86.23%) |
148 (6.62%) | |
| Pfeiffer University | 696 | 50 (7.18%) |
100 (14.37%) | 193 | 94 (48.70%) |
42 (21.76%) | |
| Piedmont Community College | 896 | 216 (24.11%) |
41 (4.58%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Pitt Community College | 7,684 | 3,467 (45.12%) |
2,401 (31.25%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Queens University of Charlotte | 1,225 | 10 (0.82%) |
663 (54.12%) | 374 | 225 (60.16%) |
46 (12.30%) | |
| Randolph Community College | 2,814 | 1,472 (52.31%) |
1,270 (45.13%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Richmond Community College | 2,384 | 854 (35.82%) |
450 (18.88%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Mid-Atlantic Christian University | 140 | 30 (21.43%) |
54 (38.57%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Roanoke-Chowan Community College | 668 | 271 (40.57%) |
278 (41.62%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Robeson Community College | 2,238 | 1,062 (47.45%) |
650 (29.04%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Rockingham Community College | 1,803 | 1,177 (65.28%) |
492 (27.29%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Rowan-Cabarrus Community College | 7,028 | 2,982 (42.43%) |
1,741 (24.77%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Saint Augustine's University | 173 | 26 (15.03%) |
97 (56.07%) | 2 | 2 (100.00%) |
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| Salem College | 464 | - | 225 (48.49%) | 85 | 43 (50.59%) |
12 (14.12%) | |
| Sampson Community College | 1,526 | 1,055 (69.13%) |
353 (23.13%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Sandhills Community College | 4,115 | 1,503 (36.52%) |
1,539 (37.40%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Shaw University | 877 | 90 (10.26%) |
422 (48.12%) | 87 | 30 (34.48%) |
45 (51.72%) | |
| Paul Mitchell the School-Fayetteville | Paul Mitchell the School-Fayetteville does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| St. Andrews University | 628 | 127 (20.22%) |
484 (77.07%) | 48 | 48 (100.00%) |
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| Southeastern Community College | 1,426 | 363 (25.46%) |
471 (33.03%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Southwestern Community College | 2,157 | 735 (34.08%) |
646 (29.95%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Stanly Community College | 2,468 | 1,342 (54.38%) |
685 (27.76%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary | 957 | 248 (25.91%) |
239 (24.97%) | 2,263 | 866 (38.27%) |
659 (29.12%) | |
| Surry Community College | 2,796 | 494 (17.67%) |
832 (29.76%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Alamance Community College | 4,827 | 1,673 (34.66%) |
1,682 (34.85%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Tri-County Community College | 1,023 | 465 (45.45%) |
311 (30.40%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Vance-Granville Community College | 2,936 | 1,853 (63.11%) |
696 (23.71%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Wake Forest University | 5,490 | 1 (0.02%) |
144 (2.62%) | 3,832 | 1,232 (32.15%) |
371 (9.68%) | |
| Wake Technical Community College | 24,609 | 11,077 (45.01%) |
7,234 (29.40%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Warren Wilson College | 740 | - | 80 (10.81%) | 51 | - | 51 (100.00%) | |
| Watts College of Nursing | Watts College of Nursing does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Wayne Community College | 3,626 | 1,451 (40.02%) |
886 (24.43%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Western Piedmont Community College | 1,813 | 422 (23.28%) |
601 (33.15%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Wilkes Community College | 2,593 | 834 (32.16%) |
807 (31.12%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Wilson Community College | 1,832 | 1,056 (57.64%) |
394 (21.51%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Wingate University | 2,673 | 110 (4.12%) |
1,311 (49.05%) | 785 | 148 (18.85%) |
80 (10.19%) | |
| Carolina Christian College | 52 | - | 39 (75.00%) | 19 | - | 19 (100.00%) | |
| Winston Salem Barber School | Winston Salem Barber School does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Winston-Salem State University | 4,192 | 429 (10.23%) |
3,062 (73.04%) | 590 | 405 (68.64%) |
126 (21.36%) | |
| Western Carolina University | 10,112 | 2,207 (21.83%) |
2,675 (26.45%) | 1,574 | 629 (39.96%) |
372 (23.63%) | |
| Southeastern Free Will Baptist Bible College | 64 | - | 20 (31.25%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Pinnacle Institute of Cosmetology | Pinnacle Institute of Cosmetology does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Carolinas College of Health Sciences | 632 | 49 (7.75%) |
161 (25.47%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Gwinnett College | Gwinnett College does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| NASCAR Technical Institute | NASCAR Technical Institute does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Hood Theological Seminary | No Undergraduate Level Courses Offered | 115 | 52 (45.22%) |
25 (21.74%) | |||
| Paul Mitchell the School-Gastonia | Paul Mitchell the School-Gastonia does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Charlotte Christian College and Theological Seminary | 24 | 19 (79.17%) |
4 (16.67%) | 34 | 33 (97.06%) |
1 (2.94%) | |
| Johnson & Wales University-Charlotte | 1,184 | 5 (0.42%) |
277 (23.40%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Empire Beauty School-Concord | Empire Beauty School-Concord does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Southeastern College-Charlotte | 252 | 1 (0.40%) |
- | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Strayer University-North Carolina | 2,671 | 2,651 (99.25%) |
14 (0.52%) | 366 | 366 (100.00%) |
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| Aveda Institute-Chapel Hill | 198 | - | 23 (11.62%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts | No Undergraduate Level Courses Offered | 102 | - | 102 (100.00%) | |||
| Center for Massage | Center for Massage does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Miller-Motte College-Raleigh | 409 | - | 109 (26.65%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Miller-Motte College-Fayetteville | 336 | - | 131 (38.99%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Empire Beauty School-Charlotte | Empire Beauty School-Charlotte does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Empire Beauty School-Winston-Salem | Empire Beauty School-Winston-Salem does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Empire Beauty School-Pineville | Empire Beauty School-Pineville does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Carolina College of Hair Design Inc | Carolina College of Hair Design Inc does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Miller-Motte College-Jacksonville | 195 | - | 67 (34.36%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Carolina College of Biblical Studies | 159 | 51 (32.08%) |
47 (29.56%) | 53 | 8 (15.09%) |
22 (41.51%) | |
| Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine | Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Shepherds Theological Seminary | No Undergraduate Level Courses Offered | 201 | 84 (41.79%) |
45 (22.39%) | |||
| Manna University | 202 | 101 (50.00%) |
48 (23.76%) | 66 | 51 (77.27%) |
8 (12.12%) | |
| Paul Mitchell the School-Raleigh | Paul Mitchell the School-Raleigh does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Empire Beauty School-West Greensboro | Empire Beauty School-West Greensboro does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| MyComputerCareer at Raleigh | 1,466 | 1,106 (75.44%) |
333 (22.71%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| South University-High Point | 67 | 41 (61.19%) |
- | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Alexander Paul Institute of Hair Design | Alexander Paul Institute of Hair Design does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Beyond Measure Barbering Institute | Beyond Measure Barbering Institute does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Chamberlain University-North Carolina | 202 | 7 (3.47%) |
128 (63.37%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| Carolina University | 460 | 88 (19.13%) |
355 (77.17%) | 420 | 330 (78.57%) |
90 (21.43%) | |
| Bull City Durham Beauty and Barber College | Bull City Durham Beauty and Barber College does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| No Grease Barber School | No Grease Barber School does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Charlotte | Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Charlotte does not offer online courses. | ||||||
| Galen Health Institutes-Asheville | 253 | - | 253 (100.00%) | No Graduate Level Courses Offered | |||
| One Stop Academy | no longer opens and does not accept applicants | ||||||
| Average | 500,874 | 132,409 (26.44%) |
179,855 (35.91%) |
80,293 | 27,364 (34.08%) |
13,310 (16.58%) | |
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