University of South Carolina-Columbia Student Population

How many students at South Carolina? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 38,532 students have enrolled in University of South Carolina-Columbia with 30,187 undergraduate and 8,345 graduate students.

By gender, 15,466 male and 23,066 female students are attending the school.

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

3,519 students are enrolled exclusively, and 21,675 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 Carolina-Columbia has a total of 38,532 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 30,187 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 8,345 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 15,466 male and 23,066 female students (the male-female ratio is 40:60) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 26,532 White, 4,019 Black, and 1,566 Asian students out of a total of 38,532 are attending at University of South Carolina-Columbia. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

University of South Carolina-Columbia is somewhat diverse with a diversity index of 50.7% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution shows moderate representation of multiple racial and ethnic groups.

• Total
• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, South Carolina has 430 students under 18 years old and 112 students over 65 years old. There are 32,338 students under 25 years old, and 6,194 students over 25 years old out of 38,532 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 430 students are younger than 18 and 56 students are older than 65. South Carolina has 29,335 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 852 students aged 25 and over.

It has 3,003 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,342 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 Carolina-Columbia, 3,519 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 21,675 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,670 students who live in South Carolina or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 849 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 30,187 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,414 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 4.68%.1,335 students have transferred in as full-time status and 79 students transferred in as part-time status.