North Carolina Colleges Student Population

At North Carolina colleges, there are 564,470 students including 486,732 undergraduate and 77,738 graduate schools students in total for academic year 2021-2022. By attending status, there are 351,384 full-time and 213,086 part-time students with gender distribution of 224,901 male and 339,569 female students.

North Carolina colleges have a total enrollment of 564,470 with a gender distribution of 39.84% male and 60.16% female students for academic year 2021-2022.

North Carolina colleges have a total of 351,384 full-time students and 213,086 part-time students. In undergraduate schools, 305,730 students are attending classes with full-time status and 181,002 are part-time students. In graduate school, 45,654 students are full-time and 32,084 students are attending schools with part-time status.

For North Carolina colleges, 261,744 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 200,785 students are enrolled in some online courses/degree programs out of total 564,470 students. In undergraduate schools, 413,025 students enrolled in online courses and 49,504 students took at least one online graduate course.

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at North Carolina colleges. There are 309,899 Caucasian, 116,864 Black/African American, 21,639 Asian, and 52,803 Hispanic students in North Carolina colleges.