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California State University-Long Beach

CA · Public · Large city · 79,680 applicants 2023

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47% admit rate $10K–$23K/yr in-state — aid decides

A parent's read

  • The major moves the money more than the admit letter. Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing grads from here earn about $111,681 four years out; drama grads about $38,270 — a 2.9× spread on the same diploma. Have the major conversation before you deposit, not after.
  • The payoff holds even at full price: roughly 7× over a decade. With no aid at all — the full in-state ~$22,679/yr — a decade of median earnings (~$64,403/yr) still runs about 7× the four-year cost. This payoff doesn't depend on qualifying for anything. (Out-of-state costs more.)

Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.

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Parent/student verdict

Moderately selective

Solid match for academically prepared students. Affordable — net price averages ~$10,440/yr among aid recipients. Major value play for in-state residents.

Best for

  • In-state residents (tuition ~$7,350 — major value play)
  • Students drawn to Business, Management, & Marketing or Visual & Performing Arts (the two biggest majors)
  • Research-curious students (R2 — active research output)
  • Students who thrive in a large, programmatic environment

The reality

  • You'd be near the bottom of their admitted class if: unweighted GPA below 3.46 (test bands are the school's own; the 3.46 line is our estimate, not a published figure)
  • Out-of-state tuition is 2.7× the in-state rate

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Institutional snapshot

What kind of college is this?

Carnegie classification
R2: Doctoral - High Research Activity
Undergraduates
35,924
20,000 and above including graduate students
In-state tuitionThe published full price before any aid. Families who don't qualify for need-based aid at a given college pay this, minus any merit scholarships — whether you qualify depends on the college's price and policies, not on any fixed income line.
$7,350
sticker, before aid
Out-of-state tuition
$19,950
+$12,600 vs in-state
Admit rateThe share of applicants a college accepts. Useful context, but your student's odds depend on their own grades and scores, not the average.
47.1%
Moderately selective
Test policyScores aren't considered at all, even if sent — the UCs are the big example. Grades and course rigor carry the weight.
Test-blind
2023
10-yr earningsMedian yearly pay of former students ten years after they STARTED here — not ten years after graduating — all majors combined. The broadest single outcome number a college reports.
$64,403
median, after entry

Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard (20260606 vintage) for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.

Admitted-student GPA

3.70 average

unstated — the Common Data Set does not state whether its GPA is weighted or unweighted, so a family's own GPA cannot be aligned to it, enrolled first-year students (2023-2024 (Fall 2023 entering cohort)). CSU Long Beach is an impacted (selective) campus — admission is competitive and can vary sharply by major. Cal State is test-blind (no SAT/ACT in admissions), so the a–g GPA is the key academic signal. Source ↗

CSU first-year GPA — verified 2026-06-15 against the campus's official Common Data Set / admissions data. The GPA basis (a–g vs. weighted vs. 4.0-scale) differs from the unweighted GPA shown for private colleges.

Admit rate by major — Fall 2025

The headline admit rate hides a wide spread by program.

First-time freshman applications and admits by major, from the CSU Chancellor's Office. Campus overall: 47%. Every program at this campus is impactedA CSU term: the program gets more qualified applicants than it has seats, so the campus adds admission requirements beyond the CSU minimum — a higher GPA bar, specific courses, or priority for local students. Treat impacted majors as more competitive than the campus's overall admit rate suggests. — the campus adds admission requirements beyond the CSU minimum to every major.

Major Applicants Admitted Admit rate
Fall 2025		 Earlier year
for comparison
Biology 7,641 5,149 67.4% Fall 2021: 66.3% ↑
Psychology 5,975 2,563 42.9% Fall 2021: 45.7% ↓
Criminal Justice 3,544 1,101 31.1% Fall 2021: 32.3% ↓
Kinesiology/Physical Education 3,479 1,418 40.8% Fall 2021: 41.5%
Marketing 3,426 887 25.9% Fall 2021: 28.4% ↓
Mechanical Engineering 3,308 1,198 36.2% Fall 2021: 62.3% ↓
Finance 3,213 994 30.9% Fall 2021: 31.5%
Management 2,686 751 28.0% Fall 2021: 28.8%
Computer Science 2,614 1,425 54.5% Fall 2021: 54.5%
Chemistry 1,910 1,545 80.9% Fall 2021: 70.4% ↑
Political Science/Government 1,899 936 49.3% Fall 2021: 53.3% ↓
Aerospace Engineering 1,810 691 38.2% Fall 2021: 66.5% ↓
Civil Engineering 1,743 929 53.3% Fall 2021: 60.7% ↓
Accountancy 1,741 584 33.5% Fall 2021: 39.3% ↓
Electrical Engineering 1,513 658 43.5% Fall 2021: 58.3% ↓
Art (Studio/Professional Performance) 1,443 648 44.9% Fall 2021: 60.4% ↓
Marine Biology 1,209 600 49.6% Fall 2021: 53.5% ↓
Biomedical Engineering 1,166 774 66.4% Fall 2021: 75.9% ↓
Public Health 1,150 600 52.2% —
Child and Family Development 1,089 380 34.9% Fall 2023: 36.0% ↓
Speech Communication 907 631 69.6% Fall 2021: 72.7% ↓
Business Administration 874 274 31.4% Fall 2021: 30.7%
Radio Television Film/Telecommunications 863 585 67.8% Fall 2024: 62.8% ↑
Computer Engineering 846 566 66.9% Fall 2021: 49.7% ↑
Design 839 498 59.4% Fall 2021: 53.1% ↑
Liberal Studies 809 541 66.9% Fall 2021: 70.9% ↓
Sociology 754 421 55.8% Fall 2021: 42.0% ↑
Music (Professional Performance) 681 157 23.1% Fall 2021: 28.2% ↓
Business Economics 678 382 56.3% Fall 2021: 47.4% ↑
Graphic Design 654 313 47.9% Fall 2021: 63.1% ↓
Construction Engineering Technology/Management 615 131 21.3% Fall 2021: 32.5% ↓
English 564 360 63.8% Fall 2021: 51.2% ↑
Information Systems 542 146 26.9% Fall 2021: 35.2% ↓
Social Work 522 164 31.4% Fall 2021: 34.9% ↓
Theatre Arts 513 303 59.1% Fall 2021: 61.1% ↓
History 470 260 55.3% Fall 2021: 43.4% ↑
Chemical Engineering 459 377 82.1% Fall 2021: 76.7% ↑
Environmental Science 428 321 75.0% Fall 2021: 68.9% ↑
Data Science 418 257 61.5% —
Journalism 412 225 54.6% Fall 2021: 44.9% ↑
Dietetics & Food Administration/Nutritional Science 403 209 51.9% Fall 2021: 53.7% ↓
Mathematics 376 326 86.7% Fall 2021: 70.3% ↑
Speech Language Pathology (without comm disorders) 374 214 57.2% Fall 2021: 51.8% ↑
Health Care Management/Administration 370 160 43.2% Fall 2021: 47.8% ↓
Environmental Engineering 350 315 90.0% Fall 2022: 51.4% ↑
Human Resources/Personnel Management 342 77 22.5% Fall 2021: 25.8% ↓
Creative Writing 335 202 60.3% Fall 2021: 44.7% ↑
Physics 312 262 84.0% Fall 2021: 68.8% ↑
Dance 308 122 39.6% Fall 2021: 40.9% ↓
Geography 301 211 70.1% Fall 2021: 56.5% ↑
Quantitative Economics 294 132 44.9% —
Economics 292 214 73.3% Fall 2021: 57.6% ↑
Applied Mathematics 280 269 96.1% Fall 2021: 83.3% ↑
Art 275 144 52.4% Fall 2021: 56.8% ↓
Apparel Merchandising and Management 245 105 42.9% Fall 2021: 32.1% ↑
Public Relations 237 145 61.2% Fall 2021: 44.4% ↑
Microbiology 236 162 68.6% Fall 2021: 71.8% ↓
Production and Operations Management 226 64 28.3% Fall 2021: 23.8% ↑
Industrial Design 224 152 67.9% Fall 2021: 66.5% ↑
Computer Engineering Technology 219 150 68.5% Fall 2021: 47.0% ↑
International Studies/Global Studies 217 189 87.1% Fall 2021: 60.1% ↑
Hotel and Restaurant/Hospitality Management 207 69 33.3% Fall 2021: 35.6% ↓
Anthropology 194 165 85.1% Fall 2021: 49.0% ↑
Philosophy 168 136 81.0% Fall 2021: 54.0% ↑
Biochemistry 154 99 64.3% Fall 2021: 53.5% ↑
Human Development 133 112 84.2% Fall 2021: 44.3% ↑
Electronic Engineering Technology 115 44 38.3% Fall 2021: 39.8% ↓
Statistics 115 100 87.0% Fall 2021: 77.5% ↑
Spanish 96 71 74.0% Fall 2021: 28.3% ↑
Linguistics 92 76 82.6% Fall 2021: 63.4% ↑
Informatics 84 34 40.5% —
Art History 81 55 67.9% Fall 2021: 58.6% ↑
Deaf Studies 81 58 71.6% Fall 2021: 33.0% ↑
Mexican-American/Chicano/Chicana Studies 66 38 57.6% Fall 2021: 27.0% ↑
Recreation Administration 65 22 33.8% Fall 2021: 35.3% ↓
Geology 50 35 70.0% Fall 2021: 59.0% ↑
African-American Studies 45 22 48.9% Fall 2021: 36.1% ↑
Insurance and Risk Management 42 13 31.0% —
Japanese 38 23 60.5% Fall 2021: 42.3% ↑
Women's Studies 37 31 83.8% Fall 2021: 41.4% ↑
Religious Studies 27 24 88.9% Fall 2024: 83.3% ↑
Asian Studies 22 16 72.7% Fall 2024: 82.6% ↓
Asian American Studies 21 15 71.4% Fall 2023: 77.8% ↓
Classics 18 18 100.0% Fall 2024: 88.0% ↑
Earth Sciences 18 17 94.4% Fall 2021: 48.2% ↑
Translation and Interpretation Studies 17 12 70.6% Fall 2021: 61.5% ↑
American Studies 15 11 73.3% Fall 2024: 71.4% ↑
East Asian Studies 15 13 86.7% —
Comparative Literature 14 13 92.9% Fall 2021: 72.2% ↑

Majors reported by transfer path only — Fall 2025

CSU reported no first-year admit row for these majors. At most campuses that means a freshman is not admitted straight into the program: they enter a pre-major (pre-nursing, for example) and apply into it later, while transfer applicants apply to the program directly. The transfer numbers below are the only published gate, and at a program like nursing they are the number a family should plan around.

Major Transfer applicants Admitted Admit rate
Fall 2025, transfer		 Earlier year
for comparison
Nursing Pre-Licensure transfer path 1,373 39 2.8% Fall 2021: 3.0%
Nursing (RN-to-Nursing Degree) transfer path 182 77 42.3% Fall 2021: 21.6% ↑
Liberal Arts transfer path 128 21 16.4% Fall 2021: 11.8% ↑
Dance (Professional Performance) transfer path 40 14 35.0% Fall 2021: 60.0% ↓
Family and Consumer Sciences/Home Economics transfer path 20 16 80.0% Fall 2021: 57.9% ↑
Geography and Environmental Studies transfer path 17 13 76.5% —

Source: CSU Chancellor's Office ↗, applications & admissions by discipline and major (Fall 2021–2025); impaction status from the CSU impacted-programs list (2027-28 cycle). Groups smaller than 10 are suppressed by CSU. A rising admit rate usually means fewer applications, not lower standards.

Outcomes & cost

What graduates actually earn, finish, and owe.

Federal College Scorecard data. Earnings are median annual income measured years after entering. Debt is for federal-aid borrowers only (cash-pay students aren't counted).

Earnings, 6 yrs after entry
$50,062
Earnings, 10 yrs after entryMedian yearly pay of former students ten years after they STARTED here — not ten years after graduating — all majors combined. The broadest single outcome number a college reports.
$64,403
Graduate within 6 yrsThe share of students who start here and finish a bachelor's within six years — the standard federal measure, and the one College Scorecard publishes. It is not a four-year rate. Read it as the odds of finishing at all: nationally about a third of students who start never do, and an unfinished degree is the most expensive outcome in this decision.
69%
Median debt (completers)The federal-loan balance of the typical graduating borrower. Families who pay cash aren't counted, so read it as "among those who borrowed."
$14,289

The real cost

What California State University-Long Beach actually costs

If you qualify for need aidGrant money based on your family's finances (via FAFSA and the college's own forms), not your student's stats.
$10,440/yr
average among aid-receiving families, all incomes — your number depends on your finances
If you don't
$22,679/yr
the full published price for in-state students — out-of-state runs higher

Which side your family lands on isn't set by any national income line — it's set by California State University-Long Beach's own aid decision: the gap between its price and your family's finances.

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The payoffTen years of typical graduate pay minus four years of cost — how many dollars ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten. Check both the full-price and with-aid versions to see which applies to you; median pay reflects who a college admits and what they study as much as the college itself., both ways

+$553K ahead at full price +$602K with aid
Full price, no aidThe all-in yearly price — tuition, housing, food, books, fees — before any aid. This is the real "full price," not just the tuition line. (4 yrs, in-state)
$90,716
~$22,679/yr all-in (out-of-state runs higher)
Aid recipients pay (4 yrs)
$41,760
$10,440/yr average
10-yr earnings total
$644,030
$64,403/yr median, 10 yrs out
Years to recoup the cost
1.4 yrs
at full price (0.6 with aid), at the median earnings rate

Source: College Scorecard (average net price among Title IV first-time, full-time undergraduates who received aid) and each college's published cost of attendance. We don't show the federal net-price-by-income brackets: their categories were fixed in 2008 and never adjusted, and none of the averages is your family's own number — the full story. Payoff = (10-yr median earnings × 10) − (4 years of cost), in dollars — how far ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten; medians travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college itself. Full price is the published cost of attendance, largely in-state for publics; earnings are 10 years after enrollment, all majors combined.

What students study here

Most popular majors at California State University-Long Beach

Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what California State University-Long Beach actually graduates — not just what it markets.

1. Business, Management, & Marketing
1,373 degrees · 31.5%
Broad set of corporate roles. Finance + consulting pay top, accounting + HR pay middle, sales spread is wide.
2. Visual & Performing Arts
977 degrees · 22.4%
Highly variable. Steady-pay roles cluster in design, illustration, production. Performance careers have very wide income distributions.
3. Engineering
733 degrees · 16.8%
Engineering majors land high-paying technical roles. Top-earning sub-disciplines: petroleum, chemical, computer engineering.
4. Social Sciences
672 degrees · 15.4%
Economics + poli sci sub-disciplines pay much more than sociology + anthropology.
5. Health Professions
604 degrees · 13.9%
Highest-paying group on this list, but most careers require additional training beyond a 4-year degree.

What those majors earn here

Median earnings 4 years after entry, by major — California State University-Long Beach's own graduates, not national averages.

Major (CIP) Credential Cohort 1-yr earnings 4-yr earnings
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. Bachelor's Degree 221 $100,178 $111,681
Biomedical/Medical Engineering. Bachelor's Degree 40 $66,090 $106,540
Construction Engineering Technology/Technician. Bachelor's Degree 53 $89,003 $103,125
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. Bachelor's Degree 125 $77,278 $103,075
Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering. Bachelor's Degree 97 $66,477 $101,797
Computer Science. Bachelor's Degree 254 $60,378 $101,428
Computer Engineering. Bachelor's Degree 55 $79,809 $98,967
Mechanical Engineering. Bachelor's Degree 229 $60,996 $95,957
Chemical Engineering. Bachelor's Degree 80 $45,164 $92,523
Civil Engineering. Bachelor's Degree 122 $73,342 $89,457

Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only) · College Scorecard program-level outcomes (PP-FOS). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →

Student body & economic mobility

Who attends here — and what the campus adds.

Opportunity Insights data. It measures two things at once: how many lower-income students a college enrols, and how many of them reach the top earnings quintile later. A high rate says the college does both — it does not establish that the campus caused the earnings, because the students it admits differ from the students it doesn't. Read it as a signal about access and destination, not as proof of value added.

Top-1% access
1.2%
from top-1% households
Mobility rateThe share of ALL students who arrived from the bottom 20% of family incomes AND reached the top 20% themselves by their early 30s — access and lift in one number, and a sign the campus itself adds earnings power.
4.4%
bottom 20% → top 20% by age 32
Upward rate
38.2%
of lower-income students who reach the top 20%
Pell recipientsStudents receiving federal Pell grants, which go to lower- and middle-income families — the standard shorthand for a college's economic mix.
50%
on federal need grants — context for these numbers

Full leaderboards: /college-mobility →

AI program signal

AI + computing education at California State University-Long Beach

CS degrees (annual)
512
CIP 11.0701 + 11.0101

Full multi-lens comparison: /ai-colleges →

Alternatives to California State University-Long Beach

Matched not just by selectivity, but by strategic goal — what a family actually decides on.

Better merit-aid options
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Auburn University
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3 stats-based merit scholarships
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George Washington University
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2 competitive merit scholarships
Lower full price
Similar selectivity, but a meaningfully lower full sticker price — the comparison that matters most for families who won't qualify for much need-based aid.
CUNY Hunter College
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$13,905/yr full price (in-state) · $8,774 less before aid for NY residents
CUNY Lehman College
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$14,121/yr full price (in-state) · $8,558 less before aid for NY residents
CUNY Brooklyn College
NY · Public
$14,151/yr full price (in-state) · $8,528 less before aid for NY residents
Safer in-state options
Same state and similar selectivity, but with a more forgiving admit rate — useful safety / match anchors.
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
CA · Public
74% admit rate (vs 47% here)
San Jose State University
CA · Public
80% admit rate (vs 47% here)
University of California-Santa Cruz
CA · Public
82% admit rate (vs 47% here)
More students move up here
Per Opportunity Insights, a larger share of these campuses' lower-income students reach the top earnings quintile than at California State University-Long Beach. That reflects who they admit as well as what they do, so read it as a destination signal rather than proof of value added.
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
NY · Public
12.9% mobility rate (vs 4.4% here)
CUNY City College
NY · Public
11.7% mobility rate (vs 4.4% here)
CUNY Lehman College
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10.2% mobility rate (vs 4.4% here)

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Feeder high schools

Which high schools send graduates to California State University-Long Beach?

Enrolled — from the schools' matriculation lists

11 high schools publish a numbered matriculation list — where their graduates actually enrolled, counted, in the school's own School Profile — and name California State University-Long Beach on it. Between them they printed 32 enrolled graduates. Ranked by graduates per class year enrolling at California State University-Long Beach, from each school's own published list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, so a one-year list and a five-year list can sit on the same page. A list whose class years we cannot read is not divided by a guess — it is listed below with its total instead.

High school · years its list covers Enrolled per class year
Orange County School of the Arts · Class of 2026 10.0 · 10 over 1 class year
Santa Margarita Catholic High School · Class of 2025 2.0 · 2 over 1 class year
Loyola High School · 2020-24 1.4 · 7 over 5 class years
Sage Hill School · 2023-2025 1.3 · 4 over 3 class years
Saint Joseph-Notre Dame High School · Class of 2026 1.0 · 1 over 1 class year
The International School of San Francisco · Class of 2026 1.0 · 1 over 1 class year
La Jolla Country Day School · 2023-2025 0.7 · 2 over 3 class years
Francis Parker School · 2022-2025 0.5 · 2 over 4 class years
Menlo School · Classes of 2023-2025 As published 0.3 · 1 over 3 class years
Santa Fe Preparatory School · 2022-2026 0.2 · 1 over 5 class years
and 1 more
York School · Classes of 2021-2026 0.2 · 1 over 6 class years

Admitted — from the schools' acceptance lists

4 high schools publish a numbered list of college acceptances — where their graduates were admitted, not where they enrolled — and name California State University-Long Beach on it. Between them they printed 78 admissions. Ranked by admissions per class year to California State University-Long Beach, from each school's own published acceptances list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. Admits are counted at each college a student was admitted to, the same way the UC Reach Score counts a student admitted to three UC campuses three times — so this is a count of admissions, not of students. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, and a list whose class years we cannot read is listed below with its total rather than divided by a guess.

High school · years its list covers Admitted per class year
Archbishop Mitty High School · Class of 2025 57.0 · 57 over 1 class year
Lycée Français de San Francisco · Classes 2022, 2023, 2024 5.7 · 17 over 3 class years
Canterbury School-Fort Myers · Class of 2026 1.0 · 1 over 1 class year
Key School · 2021 - 2026 · counted column: Acceptances 2021–2026 0.5 · 3 over 6 class years

All 15 feeder schools, ranked →

Counted from each school's own published document, linked on that school's page. A high school that is not here does not publish a numbered list we could read — that is all absence means, and it says nothing about its graduates. Where a school publishes both, the two lists are shown separately: an acceptances list is not a list of enrollments, and the two are never added together.

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California State University-Long Beach is a public four-year college in CA. It admitted 47% of applicants (79,680 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-blind.

Average enrolled GPA 3.66 (unweighted, 2025-2026 (Fall 2025), as published by the college).

Cost: about $10,440 a year on average with aid, $22,679 a year at full price for in-state students.

Median earnings ten years after entry: $64,403 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $602,270 ahead with aid, $553,314 ahead at full price.

Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing ($111,681); Biomedical/Medical Engineering ($106,540); Construction Engineering Technology/Technician ($103,125).

First-year admit rate by major, Fall 2025: lowest Construction Engineering Technology/Management 21.3% (615 applied); highest Applied Mathematics 96.1% (280 applied). 6 majors are reported on the transfer side only (freshmen enter as a pre-major): Nursing Pre-Licensure 2.8%, Nursing (RN-to-Nursing Degree) 42.3%, Liberal Arts 16.4%, Dance (Professional Performance) 35.0%, and more. Every program at this campus is impacted, meaning more qualified applicants than seats.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 12% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 38% of those reached the top fifth as adults.

Nursing: freshmen enter as pre-nursing and apply into the program later; NCLEX-RN first-time pass rate 98.8% (2024/2025, California Board of Registered Nursing).

High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name California State University-Long Beach: 11, 32 enrolled students between them — ranked by graduates per class year, most often Orange County School of the Arts (10.0 per class year, 10 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Santa Margarita Catholic High School (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Loyola High School (1.4 per class year, 7 over 5 class years, 2020-24). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/california-state-university-long-beach.

High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming California State University-Long Beach: 4, 78 admissions between them — ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (57.0 per class year, 57 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Lycée Français de San Francisco (5.7 per class year, 17 over 3 class years, Classes 2022, 2023, 2024); Canterbury School-Fort Myers (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2026). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/california-state-university-long-beach.

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