Where can your student actually get into English?

• 1276 colleges nationwide offer a bachelor's English program: 1268 awarded the degree in 2022-23 (federal IPEDS completions); 2 more report an English admit rate in the UC/CSU data; 6 more carry program earnings in federal outcome data but no 2022-23 degree count under these program codes.
• Largest programs by graduates in 2022-23: Southern New Hampshire University (782), University of Central Florida (357), Arizona State University Digital Immersion (284).
• 72 of them are in California, the one state whose public systems (the University of California and the CSU) publish an admit rate into the major.
• Hardest reported gate into the program (only the UC and the CSU publish one): University of California-Los Angeles — English, Fall 2025: 1,858 applied, 184 admitted (10%).
• Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-Monterey Bay — 100.0% (54 applied, 54 admitted, Fall 2025).
• 1 CSU campus report English on the transfer side only: freshmen enter as another major at the campus and apply into the program later.
• Highest median earnings four years after the degree: Stanford University, $82,036.
• Lowest average net price with aid: San Diego Christian College, $992 per year.

1 CSU campus reports English on the transfer side only. That means the campus published no first-year admit row for the program, so freshmen enter as another major at the campus and apply into English later, not that first-year students are shut out. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · California only (72 colleges, with the UC and CSU gates) →

Every college, one row each

Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings, then by graduates. Degree awarded is the program the college conferred bachelor's degrees in during 2022-23, with the number of graduates (federal IPEDS completions). Program admit rate is the college system's own number for this major (UC Information Center, CSU Chancellor's Office). Net price is the average paid by aid recipients; full price is the cost of attendance. Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians four years after the degree.