University of California-San Diego Student Population

How many students at UCSD? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 44,256 students have enrolled in University of California-San Diego with 34,955 undergraduate and 9,301 graduate students.

By gender, 20,975 male and 23,281 female students are attending the school.

It has more students compared to similar colleges (34,856 students on average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

236 students are enrolled exclusively, and 7,655 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

University of California-San Diego has a total of 44,256 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 34,955 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 9,301 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 20,975 male and 23,281 female students (the male-female ratio is 47:53) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 7,847 White, 739 Black, and 13,694 Asian students out of a total of 44,256 are attending at University of California-San Diego. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

University of California-San Diego is highly diverse with a diversity index of 81.6% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, UCSD has 933 students under 18 years old and 7 students over 65 years old. There are 37,995 students under 25 years old, and 6,261 students over 25 years old out of 44,256 total students.

UCSD has 33,672 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,283 students aged 25 and over.

It has 4,323 graduate students aged under 25 and 4,978 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 University of California-San Diego, 236 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 7,655 students are enrolled in some online courses.

187 students who live in California or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 49 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 34,955 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 3,751 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 10.73%.3,703 students have transferred in as full-time status and 48 students transferred in as part-time status.