Student Population at SMC

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

SMC has significantly larger enrollment compared to similarly ranked schools (average: 16,884 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 Santa Monica College and similar colleges.

By gender, there are 10,537 male and 12,916 female students attending SMC. The male-to-female student ratio is 0.82 to 1 and the ratio is similar to 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 SMC.

By age, there are 15,394 students whose age under twenty five and 5,072 students whose age is over thirty years old at Santa Monica College.

Especially, 1,249 students are younger than eighteen and 206 students are older than sixty five.

The following table and chart show the student population by student age at Santa Monica College.

At Santa Monica College, 17,666 students (75.33% of total enrollment) take online classes to get their degrees. Among them, 8,360 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, 7,713 students live in California where Santa Monica College is located in and 0 students have enrolled from other states.