California State University-Channel Islands Acceptance Rate & Admissions

California State University-Channel Islands admitted 94.8% of its reported applicant pool, which means that most applicants in that year's pool received an admission decision in their favor. That rate is above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Transfer pathways appear central at California State University-Channel Islands, where an estimated 67.1% of undergraduates entered as transfers or part-time students. The university enrolls 5,013 undergraduates, and Pell Grant recipients account for 46.6% of them.

This composition suggests a campus attended by students using Pell Grants and many whose college study began elsewhere. Those measures describe enrollment composition, not admission priorities or student outcomes.

Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should compare aid offers and ask how prior coursework will be evaluated before enrolling. The estimated transfer share makes that question part of weighing an offer from the public university.

Completion is above the comparable-institution midpoint, though first-year retention sits below it. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 51.3%, compared with a peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 49.1%.

First-year retention is 72.4%, below its peer median of 73.7%. Against that overall rate, Pell recipients in the cohort have a six-year completion rate of 66.9%, above the overall rate by 15.6 percentage points.

Enrolled students can expect six-year completion above the peer midpoint alongside first-year returns below it. Retention trails its peer midpoint while six-year completion exceeds it.