California State University-Los Angeles Student Population

How many students at Cal State LA? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 23,163 students have enrolled in California State University-Los Angeles with 19,586 undergraduate and 3,577 graduate students.

By gender, 10,065 male and 13,098 female students are attending the school.

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

1,217 students are enrolled exclusively, and 10,921 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-Los Angeles has a total of 23,163 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 19,586 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 3,577 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 10,065 male and 13,098 female students (the male-female ratio is 43:57) are attending the school.

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Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 1,120 White, 1,000 Black, and 2,354 Asian students out of a total of 23,163 are attending at California State University-Los Angeles. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

California State University-Los Angeles is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 42.7% 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, Cal State LA has 377 students under 18 years old and 29 students over 65 years old. There are 15,834 students under 25 years old, and 7,329 students over 25 years old out of 23,163 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 377 students are younger than 18 and 16 students are older than 65. Cal State LA has 14,969 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 4,617 students aged 25 and over.

It has 865 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,712 students aged 25 and over.

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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-Los Angeles, 1,217 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 10,921 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,210 students who live in California or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 7 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 19,586 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 2,226 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 11.37%.1,737 students have transferred in as full-time status and 489 students transferred in as part-time status.