Undergraduate Student Headcount by Major (Percent)
| Percent | 1993 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| College of Arts, Media & Communication | |||||||||
| Art | 3.5% | 3.0% | 3.4% | 2.4% | 3.3% | 3.8% | 4.0% | 4.0% | �% |
| Cinema and Television Arts | 3.3% | 3.6% | 4.9% | 4.6% | 4.9% | 5.5% | 6.0% | 5.9% | �% |
| Communication Studies | 1.7% | 1.7% | 2.4% | 2.8% | 2.7% | 2.0% | 2.0% | 2.1% | �% |
| Journalism | 1.8% | 2.1% | 2.7% | 2.0% | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1.0% | 1.0% | �% |
| Music | 1.8% | 1.9% | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1.3% | �% |
| Theatre | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.8% | �% |
| Total | 9.4% | 10.0% | 12.6% | 11.4% | 10.9% | 10.6% | 10.8% | 11.1% | �% |
| College of Business & Economics | |||||||||
| Accounting | 5.7% | 4.7% | 4.2% | 4.6% | 3.7% | 3.1% | 3.0% | 3.2% | �% |
| Business | 8.1% | 8.0% | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Business Law | 0.3% | 0.6% | 1.7% | 1.0% | 2.0% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.3% | �% |
| Economics | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.6% | �% |
| Finance, Financial Planning, and Insurance | 2.7% | 3.0% | 2.9% | 2.6% | 2.4% | 2.6% | 2.6% | 2.8% | �% |
| Management | 1.9% | 2.0% | 5.4% | 5.3% | 2.9% | 4.4% | 4.8% | 4.5% | �% |
| Marketing | 1.8% | 2.4% | 3.1% | 3.2% | 3.2% | 4.0% | 4.0% | 4.1% | �% |
| Office Systems/Business Education | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Systems and Operations Management | 1.1% | 2.5% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 3.4% | 2.4% | 2.2% | 2.3% | �% |
| Total | 22.8% | 23.8% | 19.9% | 18.9% | 18.4% | 19.8% | 19.8% | 19.8% | �% |
| College of Education | |||||||||
| Deaf Studies | 1.1% | 1.0% | 1.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | �% |
| College of Engineering & Computer Science | |||||||||
| Civil Engineering & Construction Management | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Computer Science | 2.5% | 4.1% | 1.3% | 3.0% | 4.7% | 5.8% | 6.3% | 6.4% | �% |
| Electrical and Computer Engineering | 0.0% | 1.2% | 1.9% | 2.5% | 2.3% | 2.2% | 2.1% | 2.2% | �% |
| Engineering and Computer Science | 5.7% | 1.0% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | �% |
| Mechanical Engineering | 0.0% | 0.7% | 1.8% | 3.6% | 3.4% | 3.4% | 3.4% | 3.6% | �% |
| Total | 8.2% | 7.0% | 5.3% | 9.3% | 10.6% | 11.6% | 12.2% | 12.6% | �% |
| College of Health & Human Development | |||||||||
| Child and Adolescent Development | 2.7% | 3.2% | 2.4% | 2.5% | 3.6% | 3.2% | 3.1% | 2.9% | �% |
| Communication Disorders and Sciences | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.7% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | �% |
| Environmental and Occupational Health | 1.1% | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.3% | �% |
| Family and Consumer Sciences | 1.4% | 1.4% | 3.2% | 2.2% | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2.1% | 2.3% | �% |
| Health Sciences | 3.4% | 3.2% | 3.1% | 5.5% | 4.1% | 3.6% | 4.2% | 5.4% | �% |
| Kinesiology | 1.7% | 2.4% | 4.2% | 6.5% | 4.8% | 4.8% | 4.7% | 5.0% | �% |
| Nursing | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | �% |
| Recreation and Tourism Management | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.3% | �% |
| Total | 11.3% | 11.7% | 15.0% | 19.1% | 17.1% | 15.7% | 15.8% | 17.0% | �% |
| College of Humanities | |||||||||
| Asian American Studies | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Central American Studies Program | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Chicana and Chicano Studies | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | �% |
| English | 3.0% | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1.4% | 1.8% | 1.7% | 1.7% | 1.5% | �% |
| Gender and Women's Studies | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | �% |
| Humanities Program | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Jewish Studies Program | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Liberal Studies Program | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Linguistics Program | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures | 0.7% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.3% | �% |
| Philosophy | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | �% |
| Religious Studies | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Total | 4.3% | 3.7% | 3.3% | 2.2% | 2.7% | 2.7% | 2.6% | 2.3% | �% |
| College of Science & Mathematics | |||||||||
| Biology | 4.9% | 4.6% | 5.0% | 5.3% | 3.9% | 4.6% | 4.6% | 4.5% | �% |
| Chemistry and Biochemistry | 0.8% | 0.6% | 1.1% | 1.2% | 1.4% | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.6% | �% |
| Geological Sciences | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.4% | �% |
| Mathematics | 0.9% | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.6% | �% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.3% | �% |
| Science and Mathematics | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Total | 6.9% | 6.2% | 7.1% | 7.6% | 6.6% | 6.7% | 6.7% | 6.4% | �% |
| College of Social & Behavioral Sciences | |||||||||
| Anthropology | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.4% | �% |
| Geography and Environmental Studies | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| History | 1.8% | 1.6% | 1.5% | 0.8% | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | 1.0% | �% |
| Africana Studies | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | �% |
| Political Science | 2.6% | 1.6% | 2.0% | 1.7% | 2.1% | 2.0% | 1.9% | 1.9% | �% |
| Psychology | 7.1% | 6.2% | 7.7% | 8.1% | 7.8% | 9.2% | 9.6% | 9.6% | �% |
| Sociology | 2.9% | 4.5% | 5.7% | 6.1% | 4.4% | 3.6% | 3.1% | 2.5% | �% |
| Urban Studies and Planning | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.2% | �% |
| Total | 15.4% | 14.8% | 17.8% | 17.4% | 16.2% | 16.5% | 16.3% | 15.6% | �% |
| Other | |||||||||
| University | 9.4% | 8.9% | 7.5% | 5.4% | 2.8% | 2.1% | 1.8% | 1.6% | �% |
| Grand Total | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
*Headcounts on the legacy (CSUN by the Numbers) site reflect only first majors. In order to get counts of all majors, please go to our CSUN Counts dashboards.