North Carolina Colleges Student Population

At North Carolina colleges, there are 575,373 students including 499,435 undergraduate and 75,938 graduate schools students in total for academic year 2020-2021. By attending status, there are 359,828 full-time and 215,545 part-time students with gender distribution of 234,601 male and 340,772 female students.

North Carolina colleges have a total enrollment of 575,373 with a gender distribution of 40.77% male and 59.23% female students for academic year 2020-2021.

North Carolina colleges have a total of 359,828 full-time students and 215,545 part-time students. In undergraduate schools, 314,531 students are attending classes with full-time status and 184,904 are part-time students. In graduate school, 45,297 students are full-time and 30,641 students are attending schools with part-time status.

For North Carolina colleges, 109,167 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 134,831 students are enrolled in some online courses/degree programs out of total 575,373 students. In undergraduate schools, 216,977 students enrolled in online courses and 27,021 students took at least one online graduate course.

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at North Carolina colleges. There are 313,296 Caucasian, 121,572 Black/African American, 20,830 Asian, and 51,305 Hispanic students in North Carolina colleges.