Admissions & selectivity
California State University-San Bernardino Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at CSUSB?
CSUSB’s reported acceptance rate is 93.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 93.7%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
Source: California State University-San Bernardino Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
California State University-San Bernardino admits 93.7% of applicants, well above the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 14,947 applicants, 14,095 admitted, and 2,162 enrolled.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled CSUSB students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, California State University-San Bernardino reported that 15% of its entering class submitted SAT scores. The middle half of those SAT submitters scored from 890 to 1130.
Among entering students who submitted ACT scores, the middle half scored from 17 to 26. Most entering students did not submit SAT scores, so the SAT range describes a minority of the class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at CSUSB. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
15% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 890
- Median
- 1000
- 75th percentile
- 1130
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
- 25th percentile
- 17
- Median
- 21
- 75th percentile
- 26
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: California State University-San Bernardino Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at CSUSB?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 57.6%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 53.5%
- First-year retention
- 79.6%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
California State University-San Bernardino enrolls 15,023 undergraduates, and more than half of them receive Pell Grants. An estimated 53.5% arrive as transfers or part-time students, so the student body is built from multiple entry points rather than a single first-year pipeline.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 14,947 first-year applicants, 14,095 admitted, and 2,162 enrolled. For transfer students, it reported 7,356 applicants, 6,497 admitted, and 2,477 enrolled.
California State University-San Bernardino retains 79.6% of its full-time first-year students, below the median of 83.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 54.9%, also below the comparable-institution median of 65.0%.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 80% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class. For the first-time, full-time fall 2019 entering class, the six-year graduation rate was 53.0%, and the rate for Pell recipients in that cohort was 54.0%, above the overall rate.
Federal data show Pell recipients completing at 64.0%, which is 9.1 percentage points above the overall six-year rate. Enrolled students can expect a campus where Pell students finish at a higher rate than the student body as a whole, though overall completion lags behind comparable institutions.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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