College profile
California State University Maritime Academy
CA · Public · Mid-size city
A parent's read
- Top feeder high schools: Saint Augustine High School (1), Kamehameha Schools Kapalama Campus (0.7), Punahou School (0.5), Francis Parker School (0.2). Graduates per class year, from each high school's own published list. 4 high schools' lists name California State University Maritime Academy; every one is ranked below.
- The campus itself adds earnings power. Opportunity Insights tracks it: only about 6% of students arrive from the bottom income fifth, but those who do reach the top fifth by their 30s at a 85% rate — a strong sign the outcomes here are the campus, not just the intake.
Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.
Feeder high schools
Which high schools send graduates to California State University Maritime Academy?
The high schools sending the most graduates per class year to California State University Maritime Academy, from each school's own published list: Saint Augustine High School (1), Kamehameha Schools Kapalama Campus (0.7), Punahou School (0.5), Francis Parker School (0.2). 4 high schools' lists name California State University Maritime Academy.
Enrolled — from the schools' matriculation lists
All 4 schools, with the class years each list covers
How this is counted
4 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 Maritime Academy on it. Between them they printed 9 enrolled graduates. Ranked by graduates per class year enrolling at California State University Maritime Academy, 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.
Is my high school on this list?
Admitted — from the schools' acceptance lists
All 1 schools, with the class years each list covers
How this is counted
1 high schools publish a numbered list of college acceptances — where their graduates were admitted, not where they enrolled — and name California State University Maritime Academy on it. Between them they printed 2 admissions. Ranked by admissions per class year to California State University Maritime Academy, 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.
All 5 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.
ℹ️ A note about this profile
California State University Maritime Academy doesn't publish standardized-test bands or admit-rate data to IPEDS. That usually means the institution is open-admission (no selectivity gate), graduate-focused, or small enough that the federal survey suppresses the numbers. What we do have below: published tuition, average net price, enrollment, degrees awarded by major. If you had a different, more selective institution in mind, the search at the top of the page will find it.
Parent/student verdict
Selectivity unknownMajor value play for in-state residents.
Best for
- In-state residents (tuition ~$9,944 — major value play)
- Students drawn to Transportation & Materials Moving or Business, Management, & Marketing (the two biggest majors)
- Families wanting a small liberal-arts experience
Verdict is composed from this college's structured data (admit rate, SAT bands, net price with aid and at full price, Carnegie classification, scholarship grids) using transparent rule thresholds — not a chat-bot's opinion.
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Institutional snapshot
What kind of college is this?
Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.
Admitted-student GPA
Broadly accessible
Cal Maritime admits the large majority of CSU-eligible applicants — there is no selective GPA cutoff. The CSU eligibility floor is an a–g GPA of 2.5 (3.0 for non-residents). Cal State is test-blind, so a solid a–g GPA is what matters.
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. Across the majors listed: 60.0%.
| Major | Applicants | Admitted | Admit rate Fall 2025 |
Earlier year for comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 473 | 286 | 60.5% | Fall 2021: 82.1% ↓ |
| Business Administration | 241 | 105 | 43.6% | Fall 2021: 73.1% ↓ |
| Marine Transportation | 197 | 152 | 77.2% | Fall 2021: 91.0% ↓ |
| Marine Engineering Technology | 131 | 96 | 73.3% | Fall 2021: 88.4% ↓ |
| International Strategy and Security | 129 | 81 | 62.8% | Fall 2024: 93.1% ↓ |
| Oceanography | 107 | 46 | 43.0% | Fall 2021: 87.2% ↓ |
| Facilities Engineering Technology | 16 | 10 | 62.5% | Fall 2021: 75.5% ↓ |
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.
The real cost
What California State University Maritime Academy actually costs
Which side your family lands on isn't set by any national income line — it's set by California State University Maritime Academy's own aid decision: the gap between its price and your family's finances.
Your odds + estimated cost across your whole college list, side by side.
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 Maritime Academy
Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what California State University Maritime Academy actually graduates — not just what it markets.
Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only). 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.
Full leaderboards: /college-mobility →
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At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantCalifornia State University Maritime Academy is a public four-year college in CA. Test policy: Test-blind.
Cost: about $20,555 a year on average with aid.
First-year admit rate by major, Fall 2025: lowest Oceanography 43.0% (107 applied); highest Marine Transportation 77.2% (197 applied).
Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 6% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 85% of those reached the top fifth as adults.
High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name California State University Maritime Academy: 4, 9 enrolled students between them — ranked by graduates per class year, most often Saint Augustine High School (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Kamehameha Schools Kapalama Campus (0.7 per class year, 5 over 7 class years, the last seven years, 2017-2023); Punahou School (0.5 per class year, 2 over 4 class years, over the last four years: 2026, 2025, 2024, and 2023). 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-maritime-academy.
High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming California State University Maritime Academy: 1, 2 admissions between them — ranked by admissions per class year, most often Bishop Garcia Diego High School (0.4 per class year, 2 over 5 class years, (2021-2025)). 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-maritime-academy.
Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/california-state-university-maritime-academy.json
Questions families ask
Does California State University Maritime Academy require the SAT or ACT? California State University Maritime Academy is a public four-year college in CA. Test policy: Test-blind.
How much does California State University Maritime Academy cost? Cost: about $20,555 a year on average with aid.
Does the admit rate at California State University Maritime Academy depend on the major? First-year admit rate by major, Fall 2025: lowest Oceanography 43.0% (107 applied); highest Marine Transportation 77.2% (197 applied).
Which high schools send the most graduates to California State University Maritime Academy? The high schools sending the most graduates per class year to California State University Maritime Academy, from each school's own published list: Saint Augustine High School (1), Kamehameha Schools Kapalama Campus (0.7), Punahou School (0.5), Francis Parker School (0.2). 4 high schools' lists name California State University Maritime Academy.
Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.