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Statistics is a small major in California. Only 18 colleges report one in this data, and the reported rates are nowhere near each other: Berkeley counted 892 applications to statistics for Fall 2025 and 134 admits, a 15% rate, while Cal State Monterey Bay counted 67 applications and 65 admits, 97.0%. A UC reads one application for the campus rather than for the major, so a UC number tells you who named statistics there, not how hard a separate door is; the CSU campuses report the major itself. Every number below is the college system's own reporting, assembled in one place.
At a glance · California
- 18 colleges in California report a bachelor's statistics program in federal outcome data or a statistics admit rate in the UC/CSU data.
- Hardest reported gate: University of California-Berkeley — Statistics, Fall 2025: 892 applied, 134 admitted (15%).
- Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-Monterey Bay — 97.0% (67 applied, 65 admitted, Fall 2025).
- Highest median earnings four years after the degree: University of California-Berkeley, $133,986.
- Lowest average net price with aid: California State University-Fullerton, $6,555 per year.
A college can appear here on federal earnings data alone, with no statistics admit row, because its system does not publish a rate for that major; that is a gap in the reporting, not an open door. Where a rate is published it is the campus's own count of who applied and who was admitted, and at a CSU the first-year row is the one a freshman applies to directly. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · Show all 66 colleges nationwide →
Hardest reported gate
Statistics, Fall 2025: 892 applied, 134 admitted
Highest reported admit rate
Statistics, Fall 2025: 67 applied, 65 admitted
Highest earnings, 4 yrs out
median, graduates of this program
Lowest net price with aid
average for aid recipients, per year
Every college, one row each
Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings. 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.
| College | Gate into the program | Program admit rate |
Campus admit rate |
Net price with aid |
Full price |
Earnings 4 yrs out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
University of California-Berkeley
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 892 applied, 134 admitted · admit GPA 4.16–4.28
|
15% | 10% | $13,481 | $45,619 | $133,986 |
|
San Diego State University
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 819 applied, 315 admitted
impacted
|
38.5% | 34% | $15,364 | $27,780 | $83,076 |
|
University of California-Santa Barbara
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics And Data Science
Fall 2025: 2,296 applied, 1,240 admitted · admit GPA 4.12–4.28
|
54% | 44% | $16,109 | $41,573 | $90,778 |
|
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 531 applied, 298 admitted
impacted
|
56.1% | 30% | $16,665 | $32,265 | $101,353 |
|
University of California-Davis
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 631 applied, 449 admitted · admit GPA 3.96–4.23
|
71% | 46% | $14,741 | $41,238 | $88,033 |
|
California State University-East Bay
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 17 applied, 14 admitted
|
82.4% | 97% | $9,320 | $22,850 | — |
|
San Jose State University
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 183 applied, 157 admitted
impacted
|
85.8% | 80% | $13,760 | $26,593 | — |
|
California State University-Long Beach
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 115 applied, 100 admitted
impacted
|
87.0% | 47% | $10,440 | $22,679 | — |
|
University of California-Riverside
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 226 applied, 206 admitted · admit GPA 3.64–4.13
|
91% | 88% | $14,304 | $38,942 | $78,492 |
|
California State University-Chico
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 24 applied, 22 admitted
|
91.7% | 94% | $14,480 | $26,283 | — |
|
California State University-Northridge
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 53 applied, 49 admitted
|
92.5% | 93% | $7,021 | $20,485 | — |
|
San Francisco State University
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 69 applied, 65 admitted
|
94.2% | 96% | $12,278 | $26,488 | — |
|
California State University-Fullerton
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 111 applied, 105 admitted
impacted
|
94.6% | 87% | $6,555 | $18,269 | $51,298 |
|
Sonoma State University
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 21 applied, 20 admitted
|
95.2% | 95% | $12,885 | $24,648 | — |
|
California State University-Sacramento
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 54 applied, 52 admitted
|
96.3% | 94% | $9,338 | $22,945 | — |
|
California State University-Monterey Bay
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Statistics
Fall 2025: 67 applied, 65 admitted
|
97.0% | 95% | $13,663 | $26,987 | — |
|
University of California-Los Angeles
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Not reported by the college system | — | 11% | $12,548 | $38,614 | $109,017 |
|
University of California-San Diego
CA · Public · Test-optional
|
Not reported by the college system | — | 27% | $12,470 | $38,701 | $96,746 |
Sources: UC Information Center ↗ (first-year applicants and admits by major); CSU Chancellor's Office ↗ (applications and admissions by major, first-time freshman and transfer; groups under 10 suppressed); federal College Scorecard field-of-study data (earnings, debt); IPEDS (admit rate, net price, cost of attendance). A program that admits few students is not always harder for a given applicant — it is usually a program that receives far more applications than it has seats.
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