New Undergraduate Student Anticipated Major by College and Department
Link to Percentage >>| Numbers | 1993 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arts, Media, & Communication | |||||||||
| Art | 161 | 161 | 262 | 218 | 376 | 361 | 398 | 375 | 0 |
| Cinema and Television Arts | 213 | 229 | 464 | 534 | 551 | 568 | 623 | 524 | 0 |
| Communication Studies | 29 | 86 | 231 | 331 | 340 | 206 | 181 | 196 | 0 |
| Journalism | 80 | 129 | 269 | 176 | 120 | 99 | 84 | 85 | 0 |
| Music | 105 | 135 | 196 | 171 | 133 | 95 | 110 | 157 | 0 |
| Theatre | 42 | 41 | 97 | 74 | 89 | 74 | 92 | 95 | 0 |
| Totals | 630 | 781 | 1,519 | 1,504 | 1,609 | 1,403 | 1,488 | 1,432 | 0 |
| Business & Economics | |||||||||
| Accounting | 224 | 222 | 420 | 608 | 450 | 289 | 269 | 310 | 0 |
| Business | 495 | 662 | 26 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Business Law | 5 | 21 | 139 | 103 | 317 | 346 | 300 | 290 | 0 |
| Economics | 12 | 20 | 72 | 93 | 80 | 87 | 66 | 50 | 0 |
| Finance, Financial Planning, and Insurance | 56 | 88 | 213 | 253 | 185 | 239 | 217 | 248 | 0 |
| Management | 37 | 95 | 570 | 576 | 145 | 558 | 519 | 422 | 0 |
| Marketing | 54 | 118 | 232 | 339 | 257 | 431 | 419 | 402 | 0 |
| Office Systems/Bus Education | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Systems and Operations Management | 34 | 79 | 89 | 113 | 518 | 163 | 194 | 212 | 0 |
| Totals | 922 | 1,314 | 1,761 | 2,110 | 1,952 | 2,113 | 1,984 | 1,934 | 0 |
| Education | |||||||||
| Deaf Studies | 55 | 68 | 106 | 164 | 154 | 84 | 86 | 88 | 0 |
| Totals | 55 | 68 | 106 | 164 | 154 | 84 | 86 | 88 | 0 |
| Engineering & Computer Science | |||||||||
| Civil Engineering and Construction Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Computer Science | 139 | 301 | 112 | 376 | 463 | 626 | 639 | 546 | 0 |
| Electrical and Computer Engineering | 0 | 50 | 213 | 293 | 200 | 181 | 220 | 257 | 0 |
| Engineering and Computer Science | 227 | 76 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management | 0 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 27 | 19 | 15 | 16 | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 0 | 24 | 206 | 366 | 315 | 309 | 318 | 374 | 0 |
| Totals | 366 | 453 | 578 | 1,050 | 1,005 | 1,135 | 1,192 | 1,193 | 0 |
| Health & Human Development | |||||||||
| Child and Adolescent Development | 130 | 156 | 178 | 265 | 370 | 266 | 257 | 253 | 0 |
| Communication Disorders and Sciences | 31 | 20 | 88 | 153 | 134 | 96 | 70 | 75 | 0 |
| Environmental and Occupational Health | 10 | 13 | 23 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 9 | 6 | 0 |
| Family and Consumer Sciences | 57 | 49 | 218 | 210 | 182 | 157 | 210 | 251 | 0 |
| Health Sciences | 194 | 168 | 291 | 684 | 361 | 352 | 449 | 733 | 0 |
| Kinesiology | 55 | 128 | 418 | 742 | 488 | 499 | 467 | 492 | 0 |
| Recreation and Tourism Management | 17 | 15 | 18 | 41 | 36 | 23 | 21 | 25 | 0 |
| Totals | 494 | 549 | 1,234 | 2,126 | 1,601 | 1,423 | 1,483 | 1,835 | 0 |
| Humanities | |||||||||
| Asian American Studies | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Central American Studies Program | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicana and Chicano Studies | 20 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 0 |
| English | 119 | 126 | 172 | 155 | 184 | 164 | 135 | 121 | 0 |
| Humanities Program | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jewish Studies Program | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Liberal Studies Program | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Linguistics/TESL Program | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures | 34 | 19 | 35 | 22 | 59 | 29 | 40 | 23 | 0 |
| Philosophy | 8 | 17 | 25 | 15 | 29 | 20 | 22 | 12 | 0 |
| Religious Studies | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Gender and Women's Studies | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Totals | 187 | 174 | 257 | 218 | 307 | 241 | 219 | 174 | 0 |
| Science & Mathematics | |||||||||
| Biology | 240 | 220 | 502 | 607 | 381 | 535 | 511 | 480 | 0 |
| Chemistry and Biochemistry | 54 | 42 | 126 | 185 | 129 | 89 | 114 | 47 | 0 |
| Geological Sciences | 10 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 13 | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Mathematics | 51 | 33 | 82 | 76 | 101 | 64 | 50 | 52 | 0 |
| Physics and Astronomy | 13 | 11 | 20 | 38 | 22 | 21 | 29 | 28 | 0 |
| Science and Mathematics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 369 | 312 | 741 | 920 | 649 | 722 | 730 | 633 | 0 |
| Social & Behavioral Sciences | |||||||||
| Anthropology | 22 | 23 | 56 | 44 | 55 | 41 | 43 | 27 | 0 |
| Geography and Environmental Studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| History | 80 | 89 | 139 | 97 | 127 | 84 | 97 | 87 | 0 |
| Africana Studies | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| Political Science | 125 | 79 | 182 | 182 | 238 | 164 | 179 | 178 | 0 |
| Psychology | 361 | 417 | 798 | 958 | 1,057 | 1,093 | 965 | 1,010 | 0 |
| Sociology | 140 | 247 | 544 | 762 | 525 | 295 | 271 | 189 | 0 |
| Urban Studies and Planning | 6 | 4 | 22 | 10 | 14 | 21 | 19 | 12 | 0 |
| Totals | 735 | 862 | 1,745 | 2,057 | 2,026 | 1,707 | 1,580 | 1,507 | 0 |
| Other | |||||||||
| University | 658 | 1,022 | 1,179 | 900 | 369 | 335 | 297 | 268 | 0 |
| Totals | 658 | 1,022 | 1,179 | 900 | 369 | 335 | 297 | 268 | 0 |
| Overall Totals | 4,416 | 5,535 | 9,120 | 11,049 | 9,672 | 9,163 | 9,059 | 9,064 | 0 |
*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.