San Francisco State University Student Population

How many students at San Francisco State? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 22,563 students have enrolled in San Francisco State University with 19,444 undergraduate and 3,119 graduate students.

By gender, 10,086 male and 12,477 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)).

1,684 students are enrolled exclusively, and 12,257 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

San Francisco State University has a total of 22,563 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 19,444 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 3,119 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 10,086 male and 12,477 female students (the male-female ratio is 45:55) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 3,621 White, 1,396 Black, and 5,075 Asian students out of a total of 22,563 are attending at San Francisco State University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

San Francisco State University is quite diverse with a diversity index of 77.5% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, San Francisco State has 725 students under 18 years old and 35 students over 65 years old. There are 16,702 students under 25 years old, and 5,861 students over 25 years old out of 22,563 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 725 students are younger than 18 and 17 students are older than 65. San Francisco State has 15,894 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 3,550 students aged 25 and over.

It has 808 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,311 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 San Francisco State University, 1,684 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 12,257 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,622 students who live in California or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 62 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 19,444 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 2,318 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 11.92%.1,951 students have transferred in as full-time status and 367 students transferred in as part-time status.