Enrollment Trends at California College of the Arts

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 1,693 where 1,308 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

76.76% of total students is undergraduate students and 23.24% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 516 and the graduate enrollment has decreased by 151 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.06 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in California College of the Arts than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at California College of the Arts since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Level Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,975	1,520	584	936	455	158	297
2016-17	1,983 8	1,528 8	552 -32	976 40	455	163 5	292 -5
2017-18	1,927 -56	1,486 -42	541 -11	945 -31	441 -14	157 -6	284 -8
2018-19	1,805 -122	1,468 -18	553 12	915 -30	337 -104	124 -33	213 -71
2019-20	1,860 55	1,466 -2	524 -29	942 27	394 57	148 24	246 33
2020-21	1,612 -248	1,239 -227	472 -52	767 -175	373 -21	125 -23	248 2
2021-22	1,630 18	1,249 10	453 -19	796 29	381 8	114 -11	267 19
2022-23	1,501 -129	1,145 -104	429 -24	716 -80	356 -25	103 -11	253 -14
2023-24	1,333 -168	1,012 -133	335 -94	677 -39	321 -35	94 -9	227 -26
2024-25	1,308 -25	1,004 -8	327 -8	677	304 -17	100 6	204 -23
Average	1,693	1,312	477	835	382	129	253

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 1,312 where 1,004 students are attending the Undergraduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Undergraduate enrollment by attending status and gender at California College of the Arts since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	1,520	1,434	544	890	86	40	46
2016-17	1,528	1,444	525	919	84	27	57
2017-18	1,486	1,409	509	900	77	32	45
2018-19	1,468	1,406	524	882	62	29	33
2019-20	1,466	1,401	507	894	65	17	48
2020-21	1,239	1,162	444	718	77	28	49
2021-22	1,249	1,178	430	748	71	23	48
2022-23	1,145	1,086	398	688	59	31	28
2023-24	1,012	934	304	630	78	31	47
2024-25	1,004	959	307	652	45	20	25
Average	1,312	1,312	449	792	1,312	28	43

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 382 where 304 students are attending the Graduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Graduate enrollment by attending status and gender at California College of the Arts since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	455	419	146	273	36	12	24
2016-17	455	430	153	277	25	10	15
2017-18	441	414	143	271	27	14	13
2018-19	337	304	111	193	33	13	20
2019-20	394	367	136	231	27	12	15
2020-21	373	317	107	210	56	18	38
2021-22	381	345	107	238	36	7	29
2022-23	356	334	96	238	22	7	15
2023-24	321	304	88	216	17	6	11
2024-25	304	287	95	192	17	5	12
Average	382	382	118	234	382	10	19

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 19.42% and the percentage of black students is 3.59% at California College of the Arts. 13.53% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 14.45% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 29.37% to 19.42%. Asian enrollment declined from 14.13% to 13.53%. Black student enrollment decreased from 4.56% to 3.59%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 12.56% to 14.45%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.9184 which indicates that highly diverse. This increased from 0.8759 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at California College of the Arts over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

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• Interactive Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	9	279	90	248	12	580	0
2016-17	6	304	109	232	13	494	0
2017-18	6	288	98	241	11	462	0
2018-19	5	251	77	240	7	385	0
2019-20	19	233	69	241	13	385	26
2020-21	11	263	78	211	5	280	23
2021-22	1	225	63	211	3	300	100
2022-23	3	208	53	200	2	291	79
2023-24	4	185	47	192	1	251	68
2024-25	5	177	47	189	2	254	76
Average	7	241	73	221	7	368	37