Asian Student Population Trends at U.S. Colleges (2010-2019)

For academic year 2019-2020, 1,265,413 Asian students (6.24% of total 20,274,611 students) have enrolled in U.S. colleges. In undergraduate programs, there are 1,063,988 Asian students and 201,425 students have enrolled in graduate programs. Most students are from China, South Korea, and Japan, but the other Asia countries such as Thailand and Vietnam have students at U.S. schools.

The Asian student population have been increased from 1,184,865 (5.59%) to 1,265,413 (6.24%) for last 10 years (2010-2019). Next table and chart show the number of enrolled Asian students for both undergraduate and graduate programs.

Asian Student Population Trends (2010-2019)

	Total		Undergraduate		Graduate
	Total	Asian	Total	Asian	Total	Asian
2010	21,196,198	1,184,865 (5.59%)	18,293,035	1,018,446 (5.57%)	2,903,163	166,469 (5.73%)
2011	21,949,200	1,144,451 (5.21%)	18,964,919	977,530 (5.15%)	2,984,281	166,921 (5.59%)
2012	21,897,778	1,153,504 (5.27%)	18,916,930	980,313 (5.18%)	2,980,848	173,191 (5.81%)
2013	21,462,233	1,144,890 (5.33%)	18,508,688	973,641 (5.26%)	2,953,545	171,249 (5.80%)
2014	21,169,912	1,153,381 (5.45%)	18,223,414	980,870 (5.38%)	2,946,498	172,511 (5.85%)
2015	20,986,793	1,171,429 (5.58%)	18,025,422	995,564 (5.52%)	2,961,371	175,865 (5.94%)
2016	20,713,641	1,189,751 (5.74%)	17,726,560	1,009,872 (5.70%)	2,987,081	179,879 (6.02%)
2017	20,531,808	1,215,567 (5.92%)	17,513,251	1,028,962 (5.88%)	3,018,557	186,605 (6.18%)
2018	20,411,008	1,241,011 (6.08%)	17,360,811	1,045,993 (6.03%)	3,050,197	195,018 (6.39%)
2019	20,274,611	1,265,413 (6.24%)	17,191,867	1,063,988 (6.19%)	3,082,744	201,425 (6.53%)

Asian Student Population Trends Chart (2010-2019)