California State University-San Marcos Student Population

How many students at Fresno State? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 16,237 students have enrolled in California State University-San Marcos with 14,977 undergraduate and 1,260 graduate students.

By gender, 6,721 male and 9,516 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)).

1,048 students are enrolled exclusively, and 6,351 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-San Marcos has a total of 16,237 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 14,977 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 1,260 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 6,721 male and 9,516 female students (the male-female ratio is 41:59) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 4,042 White, 650 Black, and 1,477 Asian students out of a total of 16,237 are attending at California State University-San Marcos. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

California State University-San Marcos is moderately diverse with a diversity index of 66.5% 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, Fresno State has 303 students under 18 years old and 9 students over 65 years old. There are 12,805 students under 25 years old, and 3,432 students over 25 years old out of 16,237 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 303 students are younger than 18 and 6 students are older than 65. Fresno State has 12,416 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 2,561 students aged 25 and over.

It has 389 graduate students aged under 25 and 871 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 California State University-San Marcos, 1,048 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 6,351 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,041 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 14,977 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 2,162 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 14.44%.1,726 students have transferred in as full-time status and 436 students transferred in as part-time status.