College Statistics

CSU Explorer

Fall 2021–2025 admissions · 23 campuses · 21 discipline areas

Applications
378,446
+6.3% since Fall 2021
Admit rate
87.0%
+4.3 pts — the CSU has grown more open
Yield
46.7%
Share of admitted students who enrolled
New students
153,805
+4.3% since Fall 2021

From application to enrollment, Fall 2025

Bar length is proportional to headcount. Percentages are of the preceding stage.

Applied
378,446
Admitted
329,370
Enrolled
153,805

Applications received

Systemwide, all campuses

353k366k380k’21: 356k’21’22: 355k’22’23: 362k’23’24: 374k’24’25: 378k’25378k

Admit rate

Admitted as a share of applicants

82%85%87%’21: 83%’21’22: 84%’22’23: 84%’23’24: 86%’24’25: 87%’2587%

Every campus, ranked by selectivity

Admit rateAdmits fewer than half of applicants
Cal Poly SLO
29.0%
San Diego State
40.4%
Cal State Long Beach
46.5%
Cal Maritime
60.9%
San José State
72.6%
Cal Poly Pomona
73.1%
CSU San Marcos
79.7%
Cal State East Bay
79.8%
CSU Bakersfield
80.2%
CSU Northridge
80.6%
Cal State Fullerton
82.5%
San Francisco State
84.7%
Chico State
85.6%
Cal State LA
85.8%
Fresno State
86.2%
CSU Channel Islands
87.1%
CSU San Bernardino
89.2%
Stanislaus State
89.3%
Sacramento State
89.7%
CSU Dominguez Hills
89.7%
Cal Poly Humboldt
90.2%
Sonoma State
91.1%
CSU Monterey Bay
93.7%

Fall 2025, all entry levels. CalStateTEACH is a systemwide credential program rather than a campus and is not ranked.

Source — CSU Institutional Research data dashboards. Admissions counts are Fall term. Discipline figures cover first-time freshmen and undergraduate transfers across 39+ majors; campus totals cover all entry levels, so they are larger than the discipline sums.

Gaps carried from the source — the CSU suppresses enrollment in much of Fall 2021 and Fall 2022 at the discipline level, so discipline views report Fall 2025 only rather than a trend that would show a reporting gap as a collapse. Nothing here is estimated or interpolated. Cal Maritime is reported separately through Fall 2025 and is kept separate here.