California State University-Long Beach Student Population

How many students at Cal State Long Beach? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 42,003 students have enrolled in California State University-Long Beach with 36,082 undergraduate and 5,921 graduate students.

By gender, 17,258 male and 24,745 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (16,875 students on average - public Research University (high research activity)).

2,404 students are enrolled exclusively, and 20,273 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-Long Beach has a total of 42,003 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 36,082 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 5,921 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 17,258 male and 24,745 female students (the male-female ratio is 41:59) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 6,272 White, 1,668 Black, and 8,012 Asian students out of a total of 42,003 are attending at California State University-Long Beach. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

California State University-Long Beach is moderately diverse with a diversity index of 67.5% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

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Student Age Distribution

By age, Cal State Long Beach has 734 students under 18 years old and 29 students over 65 years old. There are 32,681 students under 25 years old, and 9,322 students over 25 years old out of 42,003 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 734 students are younger than 18 and 16 students are older than 65. Cal State Long Beach has 30,691 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 5,391 students aged 25 and over.

It has 1,990 graduate students aged under 25 and 3,931 students aged 25 and over.

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• Undergraduate
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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-Long Beach, 2,404 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 20,273 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,372 students who live in California or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 32 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 36,082 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 4,597 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 12.74%.3,938 students have transferred in as full-time status and 659 students transferred in as part-time status.