University of South Florida Student Population

How many students at USF? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 49,622 students have enrolled in University of South Florida with 38,525 undergraduate and 11,097 graduate students.

By gender, 20,819 male and 28,803 female students are attending the school.

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

7,519 students are enrolled exclusively, and 25,913 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 South Florida has a total of 49,622 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 38,525 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 11,097 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 20,819 male and 28,803 female students (the male-female ratio is 42:58) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 21,176 White, 3,966 Black, and 4,016 Asian students out of a total of 49,622 are attending at University of South Florida. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

University of South Florida is quite diverse with a diversity index of 75.3% 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, USF has 709 students under 18 years old and 43 students over 65 years old. There are 37,880 students under 25 years old, and 11,742 students over 25 years old out of 49,622 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 709 students are younger than 18 and 12 students are older than 65. USF has 34,371 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 4,154 students aged 25 and over.

It has 3,509 graduate students aged under 25 and 7,588 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 University of South Florida, 7,519 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 25,913 students are enrolled in some online courses.

6,755 students who live in Florida or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 764 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 38,525 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 3,526 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 9.15%.2,735 students have transferred in as full-time status and 791 students transferred in as part-time status.