U.S. College Student Demographics By Race/Ethnicity

For academic year 2019-2020, total 20,274,677 students have enrolled U.S. colleges and universities. By gender, 42.90% of male students (8,698,217) and 57.10% of female students (11,576,460) are attending colleges. In this article, we analyze the college student demographics by race/gender for both undergraduate and graduate schools. In undergraduate programs, total 17,191,933 students are enrolled and 3,082,744 students have joined graduate programs.

There are 9,977,915 white students and the shares is 49.21%. 2,438,934 black (or African American) students (12.03%) and 3,783,772 Hispanic students (18.66%) are attending U.S. colleges. The shares of Asian students is 6.24% (1,265,413 students). Next tables and charts shows the student demographics by race/ethnicity for undergraduate and graduate schools separately. You can check each shares by gender and attending status.

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Undergraduate Student Population by Race/Ethnicity (2019-2020)

	Total			Full-time Students		Part-time Students
	Total	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women
Total	17,191,933	7,460,865	9,731,068	4,771,623	5,930,610	2,689,242	3,800,458
American Indian or Alaska Native	120,603 (0.70%)	47,612	72,991	26,992	40,244	20,620	32,747
Asian	1,063,988 (6.19%)	497,974	566,014	337,757	372,844	160,217	193,170
Black or African American	2,103,584 (12.24%)	788,740	1,314,844	495,527	759,571	293,213	555,273
Hispanic	3,484,777 (20.27%)	1,451,808	2,032,969	822,042	1,132,274	629,766	900,695
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	51,981 (0.30%)	22,921	29,060	13,645	17,145	9,276	11,915
White	8,447,453 (49.14%)	3,754,279	4,693,174	2,472,507	2,949,417	1,281,772	1,743,757
Two or more races	633,373 (3.68%)	268,170	365,203	180,266	237,227	87,904	127,976
Race/ethnicity unknown	718,962 (4.18%)	326,991	391,971	161,024	200,889	165,967	191,082
Nonresident alien	567,212 (3.30%)	302,370	264,842	261,863	220,999	40,507	43,843

Undergraduate Student Population By Race/Ethnicity Chart (2019-2020)

Graduate Program Student Population by Race/Ethnicity (2019-2020)

	Total			Full-time Students		Part-time Students
	Total	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women
Total	3,082,744	1,237,352	1,845,392	749,986	1,007,944	487,366	837,448
American Indian or Alaska Native	12,790 (0.41%)	4,295	8,495	2,258	4,202	2,037	4,293
Asian	201,425 (6.53%)	86,013	115,412	56,002	75,383	30,011	40,029
Black or African American	335,350 (10.88%)	100,077	235,273	47,593	104,645	52,484	130,628
Hispanic	298,995 (9.70%)	106,817	192,178	61,835	105,726	44,982	86,452
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	5,634 (0.18%)	2,157	3,477	1,106	1,730	1,051	1,747
White	1,530,462 (49.65%)	593,972	936,490	335,030	483,615	258,942	452,875
Two or more races	76,122 (2.47%)	28,325	47,797	17,554	28,167	10,771	19,630
Race/ethnicity unknown	194,740 (6.32%)	73,997	120,743	38,456	57,052	35,541	63,691
Nonresident alien	427,226 (13.86%)	241,699	185,527	190,152	147,424	51,547	38,103

Graduate Student Population By Race/Ethnicity Chart (2019-2020)