Student Population at San Francisco State

By race/ethnicity, 3,621 White, 1,396 Black, and 5,075 Asian students out of a total of 22,563 are attending at San Francisco State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

San Francisco State University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 77.5% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

By age, San Francisco State has 725 students under 18 years old and 35 students over 65 years old. There are 16,702 students under 25 years old, and 5,861 students over 25 years old out of 22,563 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 725 students are younger than 18 and 17 students are older than 65. San Francisco State has 15,894 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 3,550 students aged 25 and over.

It has 808 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,311 students aged 25 and over.

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially those who want to continue education and work in the field. At San Francisco State University, 1,684 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 12,257 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,622 students who live in California or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 62 students live in another State or outside of the United States.