Student Population at Cal Poly

The following chart compares Cal Poly's student enrollment with similarly ranked schools, all colleges nationwide, Public, 4-Years Colleges, 4-Years Colleges, and Public, 4-Years Colleges in California.

Cal Poly has significantly larger enrollment compared to similarly ranked schools (average: 16,045 students). The enrollment is close to the Public, 4-Years Colleges in California average (20,004 students).

The below chart compares the student population between California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo and similar colleges.

By gender, there are 11,396 male and 11,673 female students attending Cal Poly. The male-to-female student ratio is 0.98 to 1 and the ratio is than national average (the national average is 0.75 to 1).

The following table and chart show the student population by gender and attending status at Cal Poly.

By age, there are 22,338 students whose age under twenty five and 261 students whose age is over thirty years old at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

Especially, 298 students are younger than eighteen and 2 students are older than sixty five.

The following table and chart show the student population by student age at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

At California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, 8,074 students (35.00% of total enrollment) take online classes to get their degrees. Among them, 127 students enrolled exclusively in online classes (i.e. no off-line attendance required) and others are taking online courses with off-line courses. The following tables describe the number of students who enrolled in one or more online courses.

By location of enrolled students, 108 students live in California where California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo is located in and 19 students have enrolled from other states.