California Colleges Student Population

At California colleges, there are 2,761,066 students including 2,440,631 undergraduate and 320,435 graduate schools students in total the for academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 1,526,078 full-time and 1,234,988 part-time students.By gender, 44.46% male and 55.54% female students enrolled in California colleges in the academic year 2024-2025.

California colleges have a total of 1,526,078 full-time students and 1,234,988 part-time students. In undergraduate schools, 1,295,737 students are attending classes with full-time status and 1,144,894 are part-time students. In graduate school, 230,341 students are full-time and 90,094 students are attending schools with part-time status.

For California colleges, 746,510 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 806,931 students are enrolled in some online courses/degree programs out of total 2,761,066 students. In undergraduate schools, 1,404,045 students enrolled in online courses and 149,396 students took at least one online graduate course.

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at California colleges. There are 619,548 Caucasian, 160,552 Black/African American, 398,124 Asian, and 1,166,332 Hispanic students in California colleges.