New First-Time Freshman Student Anticipated Major by College and Department
Link to Percentage >>| Numbers | 1993 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arts, Media, & Communication | |||||||||
| Art | 43 | 65 | 150 | 82 | 125 | 172 | 199 | 155 | 0 |
| Cinema and Television Arts | 59 | 92 | 209 | 224 | 201 | 298 | 369 | 282 | 0 |
| Communication Studies | 3 | 14 | 54 | 57 | 34 | 41 | 38 | 44 | 0 |
| Journalism | 32 | 54 | 143 | 82 | 39 | 45 | 42 | 38 | 0 |
| Music | 66 | 72 | 117 | 86 | 51 | 34 | 47 | 61 | 0 |
| Theatre | 18 | 23 | 68 | 36 | 41 | 38 | 53 | 55 | 0 |
| Totals | 221 | 320 | 741 | 567 | 491 | 628 | 748 | 635 | 0 |
| Business & Economics | |||||||||
| Accounting | 80 | 66 | 110 | 141 | 75 | 81 | 87 | 96 | 0 |
| Business | 209 | 288 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Business Law | 2 | 11 | 85 | 65 | 143 | 242 | 216 | 209 | 0 |
| Economics | 2 | 9 | 18 | 31 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 15 | 0 |
| Finance, Financial Planning, and Insurance | 7 | 15 | 49 | 86 | 52 | 111 | 95 | 131 | 0 |
| Management | 4 | 41 | 299 | 276 | 37 | 275 | 285 | 211 | 0 |
| Marketing | 13 | 30 | 92 | 146 | 84 | 226 | 216 | 247 | 0 |
| Office Systems/Bus Education | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Systems and Operations Management | 13 | 15 | 25 | 29 | 175 | 50 | 81 | 93 | 0 |
| Totals | 333 | 481 | 693 | 783 | 598 | 1,016 | 1,011 | 1,002 | 0 |
| Education | |||||||||
| Deaf Studies | 12 | 20 | 37 | 52 | 60 | 32 | 39 | 33 | 0 |
| Totals | 12 | 20 | 37 | 52 | 60 | 32 | 39 | 33 | 0 |
| Engineering & Computer Science | |||||||||
| Civil Engineering and Construction Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Computer Science | 71 | 187 | 60 | 198 | 190 | 367 | 412 | 323 | 0 |
| Electrical and Computer Engineering | 0 | 27 | 138 | 204 | 112 | 133 | 174 | 187 | 0 |
| Engineering and Computer Science | 124 | 59 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 0 | 14 | 129 | 225 | 179 | 209 | 242 | 280 | 0 |
| Totals | 195 | 288 | 362 | 631 | 501 | 723 | 840 | 799 | 0 |
| Health & Human Development | |||||||||
| Child and Adolescent Development | 25 | 39 | 59 | 87 | 130 | 110 | 111 | 108 | 0 |
| Communication Disorders and Sciences | 4 | 4 | 19 | 31 | 26 | 25 | 20 | 27 | 0 |
| Environmental and Occupational Health | 0 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| Family and Consumer Sciences | 5 | 14 | 70 | 79 | 66 | 75 | 126 | 164 | 0 |
| Health Sciences | 74 | 112 | 190 | 378 | 100 | 162 | 284 | 582 | 0 |
| Kinesiology | 11 | 36 | 228 | 347 | 153 | 226 | 263 | 276 | 0 |
| Recreation and Tourism Management | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 0 |
| Totals | 120 | 209 | 577 | 944 | 511 | 623 | 816 | 1,171 | 0 |
| Humanities | |||||||||
| Asian American Studies | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Central American Studies Program | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicana and Chicano Studies | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| English | 29 | 35 | 81 | 53 | 47 | 72 | 62 | 53 | 0 |
| Humanities Program | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jewish Studies Program | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 21 | 9 | 19 | 3 | 0 |
| Philosophy | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 0 |
| Religious Studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Gender and Women's Studies | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 46 | 49 | 100 | 67 | 97 | 102 | 103 | 65 | 0 |
| Science & Mathematics | |||||||||
| Biology | 122 | 129 | 362 | 389 | 223 | 347 | 376 | 352 | 0 |
| Chemistry and Biochemistry | 19 | 22 | 84 | 123 | 92 | 61 | 97 | 33 | 0 |
| Geological Sciences | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 0 |
| Mathematics | 15 | 14 | 50 | 44 | 47 | 31 | 30 | 26 | 0 |
| Physics and Astronomy | 6 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 13 | 13 | 23 | 18 | 0 |
| Science and Mathematics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 163 | 172 | 518 | 581 | 377 | 456 | 543 | 443 | 0 |
| Social & Behavioral Sciences | |||||||||
| Anthropology | 1 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 0 |
| Geography and Environmental Studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| History | 11 | 12 | 59 | 32 | 34 | 36 | 40 | 41 | 0 |
| Africana Studies | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Political Science | 41 | 35 | 88 | 99 | 100 | 75 | 102 | 93 | 0 |
| Psychology | 95 | 140 | 372 | 381 | 215 | 385 | 400 | 419 | 0 |
| Sociology | 35 | 57 | 241 | 374 | 136 | 86 | 77 | 54 | 0 |
| Urban Studies and Planning | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Totals | 184 | 248 | 781 | 901 | 507 | 606 | 644 | 622 | 0 |
| Other | |||||||||
| University | 511 | 910 | 1,172 | 898 | 369 | 335 | 297 | 263 | 0 |
| Totals | 511 | 910 | 1,172 | 898 | 369 | 335 | 297 | 263 | 0 |
| Overall Totals | 1,785 | 2,697 | 4,981 | 5,424 | 3,511 | 4,521 | 5,041 | 5,033 | 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.