 The university has 27,725 undergraduate and 2,595 graduate students, including 211 doctoral students. Each year about 33,000 new students apply for admission, with equal proportions of female and male applicants. On average, only 25 % of the applicants are admitted, of which approximately 40 % are female and 60 % male. The student population comes primarily from the department of Valle del Cauca, representing almost 90 % of the admitted students. The departments of Cauca and Nariño come in second and third in terms of student representation in the school, with approximately 5 % and 2 % respectively.
