California State University-Bakersfield Student Population

How many students at CSU Bakersfield? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 10,419 students have enrolled in California State University-Bakersfield with 8,865 undergraduate and 1,554 graduate students.

By gender, 3,567 male and 6,852 female students are attending the school.

It has almost same number of students compared to similar colleges (10,123 students on average - public Master's College and University (larger programs)).

1,212 students are enrolled exclusively, and 5,881 students are enrolled in some online courses.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

Student Population by Gender

California State University-Bakersfield has a total of 10,419 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 8,865 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 1,554 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 3,567 male and 6,852 female students (the male-female ratio is 34:66) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 1,379 White, 439 Black, and 637 Asian students out of a total of 10,419 are attending at California State University-Bakersfield. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

California State University-Bakersfield is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 51.3% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution shows moderate representation of multiple racial and ethnic groups.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, CSU Bakersfield has 353 students under 18 years old and 22 students over 65 years old. There are 7,192 students under 25 years old, and 3,227 students over 25 years old out of 10,419 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 353 students are younger than 18 and 12 students are older than 65. CSU Bakersfield has 6,773 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 2,092 students aged 25 and over.

It has 419 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,135 students aged 25 and over.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially those who want to continue education and work in the field. At California State University-Bakersfield, 1,212 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 5,881 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,204 students who live in California or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 8 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 8,865 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,234 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 13.92%.1,041 students have transferred in as full-time status and 193 students transferred in as part-time status.