Student Population at Florida Gulf Coast

By race/ethnicity, 8,514 White, 808 Black, and 330 Asian students out of a total of 16,612 are attending at Florida Gulf Coast University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Florida Gulf Coast University is moderately diverse with a diversity index of 65.7% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

By age, Florida Gulf Coast has 379 students under 18 years old and 9 students over 65 years old. There are 13,747 students under 25 years old, and 2,865 students over 25 years old out of 16,612 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 378 students are younger than 18 and 4 students are older than 65. Florida Gulf Coast has 13,109 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,354 students aged 25 and over.

In graduate schools at Florida Gulf Coast, 1 students are younger than 18 and 5 students are older than 65. It has 638 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,511 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 Florida Gulf Coast University, 2,496 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 8,653 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,348 students who live in Florida or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 148 students live in another State or outside of the United States.