New First-Time Freshman Student Anticipated Major by College and Department
Link to Numbers >>| Percent | 1993 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arts, Media, & Communication | |||||||||
| Art | 2.4% | 2.4% | 3.0% | 1.5% | 3.6% | 3.8% | 3.9% | 3.1% | �% |
| Cinema and Television Arts | 3.3% | 3.4% | 4.2% | 4.1% | 5.7% | 6.6% | 7.3% | 5.6% | �% |
| Communication Studies | 0.2% | 0.5% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.9% | �% |
| Journalism | 1.8% | 2.0% | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1.1% | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | �% |
| Music | 3.7% | 2.7% | 2.3% | 1.6% | 1.5% | 0.8% | 0.9% | 1.2% | �% |
| Theatre | 1.0% | 0.9% | 1.4% | 0.7% | 1.2% | 0.8% | 1.1% | 1.1% | �% |
| Totals | 12.4% | 11.9% | 14.9% | 10.5% | 14.0% | 13.9% | 14.8% | 12.6% | �% |
| Business & Economics | |||||||||
| Accounting | 4.5% | 2.4% | 2.2% | 2.6% | 2.1% | 1.8% | 1.7% | 1.9% | �% |
| Business | 11.7% | 10.7% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Business Law | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.7% | 1.2% | 4.1% | 5.4% | 4.3% | 4.2% | �% |
| Economics | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.6% | 0.9% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.3% | �% |
| Finance, Financial Planning, and Insurance | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% | 1.6% | 1.5% | 2.5% | 1.9% | 2.6% | �% |
| Management | 0.2% | 1.5% | 6.0% | 5.1% | 1.1% | 6.1% | 5.7% | 4.2% | �% |
| Marketing | 0.7% | 1.1% | 1.8% | 2.7% | 2.4% | 5.0% | 4.3% | 4.9% | �% |
| Office Systems/Bus Education | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Systems and Operations Management | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 5.0% | 1.1% | 1.6% | 1.8% | �% |
| Totals | 18.7% | 17.8% | 13.9% | 14.4% | 17.0% | 22.5% | 20.1% | 19.9% | �% |
| Education | |||||||||
| Deaf Studies | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.0% | 1.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.7% | �% |
| Totals | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.0% | 1.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.7% | �% |
| Engineering & Computer Science | |||||||||
| Civil Engineering and Construction Management | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Computer Science | 4.0% | 6.9% | 1.2% | 3.7% | 5.4% | 8.1% | 8.2% | 6.4% | �% |
| Electrical and Computer Engineering | 0.0% | 1.0% | 2.8% | 3.8% | 3.2% | 2.9% | 3.5% | 3.7% | �% |
| Engineering and Computer Science | 6.9% | 2.2% | 0.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | �% |
| Mechanical Engineering | 0.0% | 0.5% | 2.6% | 4.1% | 5.1% | 4.6% | 4.8% | 5.6% | �% |
| Totals | 10.9% | 10.7% | 7.3% | 11.6% | 14.3% | 16.0% | 16.7% | 15.9% | �% |
| Health & Human Development | |||||||||
| Child and Adolescent Development | 1.4% | 1.4% | 1.2% | 1.6% | 3.7% | 2.4% | 2.2% | 2.1% | �% |
| Communication Disorders and Sciences | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.5% | �% |
| Environmental and Occupational Health | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.1% | �% |
| Family and Consumer Sciences | 0.3% | 0.5% | 1.4% | 1.5% | 1.9% | 1.7% | 2.5% | 3.3% | �% |
| Health Sciences | 4.1% | 4.2% | 3.8% | 7.0% | 2.8% | 3.6% | 5.6% | 11.6% | �% |
| Kinesiology | 0.6% | 1.3% | 4.6% | 6.4% | 4.4% | 5.0% | 5.2% | 5.5% | �% |
| Recreation and Tourism Management | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% | �% |
| Totals | 6.7% | 7.7% | 11.6% | 17.4% | 14.6% | 13.8% | 16.2% | 23.3% | �% |
| Humanities | |||||||||
| Asian American Studies | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 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 | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | �% |
| English | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1.6% | 1.0% | 1.3% | 1.6% | 1.2% | 1.1% | �% |
| 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% | 0.1% | 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/TESL Program | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.1% | �% |
| Philosophy | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | �% |
| Religious Studies | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Gender and Women's Studies | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Totals | 2.6% | 1.8% | 2.0% | 1.2% | 2.8% | 2.3% | 2.0% | 1.3% | �% |
| Science & Mathematics | |||||||||
| Biology | 6.8% | 4.8% | 7.3% | 7.2% | 6.4% | 7.7% | 7.5% | 7.0% | �% |
| Chemistry and Biochemistry | 1.1% | 0.8% | 1.7% | 2.3% | 2.6% | 1.3% | 1.9% | 0.7% | �% |
| Geological Sciences | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.3% | �% |
| Mathematics | 0.8% | 0.5% | 1.0% | 0.8% | 1.3% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.5% | �% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.4% | �% |
| Science and Mathematics | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| Totals | 9.1% | 6.4% | 10.4% | 10.7% | 10.7% | 10.1% | 10.8% | 8.8% | �% |
| Social & Behavioral Sciences | |||||||||
| Anthropology | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | �% |
| Geography and Environmental Studies | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | �% |
| History | 0.6% | 0.4% | 1.2% | 0.6% | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.8% | �% |
| Africana Studies | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% | �% |
| Political Science | 2.3% | 1.3% | 1.8% | 1.8% | 2.8% | 1.7% | 2.0% | 1.8% | �% |
| Psychology | 5.3% | 5.2% | 7.5% | 7.0% | 6.1% | 8.5% | 7.9% | 8.3% | �% |
| Sociology | 2.0% | 2.1% | 4.8% | 6.9% | 3.9% | 1.9% | 1.5% | 1.1% | �% |
| Urban Studies and Planning | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | �% |
| Totals | 10.3% | 9.2% | 15.7% | 16.6% | 14.4% | 13.4% | 12.8% | 12.4% | �% |
| Other | |||||||||
| University | 28.6% | 33.7% | 23.5% | 16.6% | 10.5% | 7.4% | 5.9% | 5.2% | �% |
| Totals | 28.6% | 33.7% | 23.5% | 16.6% | 10.5% | 7.4% | 5.9% | 5.2% | �% |
| Overall Totals | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
*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.