Fall 2025 Freshman Impaction Results By Major

Fall 2025 Impaction Results by Major

First-time first-year applicants who met the CSU minimum eligibility requirements were ranked in each major and offered admission to meet both the individual major's capacity and the overall university enrollment capacity.

For Fall 2025, many of our majors had the capacity to admit all CSU-eligible applicants.

Additional Impaction Review Criteria

Preference is given to local applicants through a 0.25 GPA increase in the calculation for those applicants who will graduate from a high school in Santa Clara County.

In addition to the preference given to local applicants, SJSU will consider additional factors in the impaction process. Specifically, additional consideration will be given to applicants who qualify for the Cal State Apply application fee waiver; are the first to attend college in their family (first-generation); and/or are a U.S. veteran. Further details on the factors considered in the impaction process can be found on our impaction page.

Applicants to majors in the College of Engineering(COE) will be ranked using a modified eligibility index that will take into consideration applicants’ math GPA in addition to the factors listed above.

SJSU has been admitting Fall 2025 applicants since December. Please continue to check your MySJSU account for updates to your admission status and messages posted about our progress in our admission process. Applicants in a Decision Pending (DP) status are still under consideration for admission.

Consideration for admission to alternate major:

SJSU admits applicants to their alternate major only if there is additional capacity beyond those admitted as a primary major. This means that you might meet the threshold for your alternate major, but because there is no additional enrollment capacity to admit applicants to alternate majors, your application was withdrawn as unaccommodated. We will be updating the list of majors that did not have capacity to admit to alternate through March.

Non-residents of California, including international students, needed to earn a minimum GPA of 3.0 to be eligible for CSU admission consideration. For majors requiring a higher eligibility index, non-residents must have met the higher standard: the CSU eligibility standard for non-resident applicants or the major-specific impaction threshold.

 

Program (Major) Admit to Program Minimum Impaction Point Index
Advertising 2000
Aerospace Engineering*^ 4320
African-American Studies 2000
Animation and Illustration^ 3040Δ
Anthropology 2000
Applied Math - Applied & Computational 2000
Art - Digital Media Art 2000
Art - Photography 2000
Art - Pictorial Arts 2000
Art - Spatial Arts 2000
Art - Studio - Prep for Teaching, SS 2000
Art - Studio Practice 2000
Art History and Visual Culture 2000
Asian American Studies 2000
Aviation*^ 3420
Behavioral Science 2000
Biological Sciences 2000
Biological Sciences - Microbiology 2000
Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology 2000
Biological Sciences - Systems Physiology 2000
Biomedical Engineering*^ 3360
Business Admin. - Accounting^ 2760
Business Admin. - Accounting Info Systems 2000
Business Admin. - Business Analytics 2000
Business Admin. - Corporate Accounting Finance^ 2520
Business Admin. - Entrepreneurship 2000
Business Admin. - Finance^ 2920
Business Admin. - Hospitality, Tourism & Event Mgmt 2000
Business Admin. - Human Resource Mgmt 2000
Business Admin. - International Business 2000
Business Admin. - Management^ 2320
Business Admin. - Management Info Systems 2000
Business Admin. - Marketing^ 2280
Business Admin. - Operations & Supply Chain Mgmt 2000
Chemical Engineering* 3000
Chemistry - Biochemistry^ 2000
Chemistry, B.A.^ 2000
Chemistry, B.S.^ 2000
Chicana and Chicano Studies 2000
Child & Adolescent Dev. - Prep for Teaching, MS 2000
Child & Adolescent Development 2000
Chinese 2000
Civil Engineering*^ 4200
Communication Studies 2000
Communicative Disorders & Sciences 2000
Computer Engineering*^ 4920
Computer Science^ 3440
Computer Science & Linguistics^ 2000
Creative Arts 2000
Dance 2000
Data Science^ 2000
Design Studies 2000
Earth Systems Science 2000
Ecology & Evolution 2000
Economics, B.A. 2000
Economics, B.S. 2000
Electrical Engineering*^ 4800
Engineering Tech - Computer Network System Mgmt.* 3000
Engineering Tech - Manufacturing Systems* 3000
English 2000
English - Professional and Technical Writing 2000
English - Creative Writing 2000
English - Prep for Teaching, SS 2000
Environmental Studies, B.A. 2000
Environmental Studies, B.S. 2000
Environmental Studies - Prep for Teaching, MS 2000
Forensic Science - Biology^ 2800
Forensic Science - Chemistry 2000
Forensic Science - Crime Scene Investigation^ 2880
Forensic Science - Digital Evidence 2000
French 2000
Geography 2000
Geology 2000
Global Studies 2000
History 2000
Humanities - American Studies 2000
Humanities - Liberal Arts 2000
Humanities - Religious Studies 2000
Industrial & Systems Engineering* 3000
Interdisciplinary Engineering* 3000
Japanese 2000
Journalism 2000
Justice Studies 2000
Justice Studies - Criminology 2000
Kinesiology 2000
Kinesiology - Prep for Teaching, SS 2000
Liberal Studies - Integrated Teacher Ed. 2000
Liberal Studies - Integrated Teacher Ed. Spanish Bilingual 2000
Liberal Studies - Prep for Teaching, MS 2000
Linguistics 2000
Marine Biology 2000
Materials Engineering* 3000
Mathematics 2000
Mathematics - Integrated Prep for Teaching 2000
Mechanical Engineering*^ 4800
Meteorology 2000
Meteorology - Climate Science 2000
Music, B.A. 2000
Music, B.M. - Composition 2000
Music, B.M. - Jazz Studies 2000
Music, B.M. - Music Education 2000
Music, B.M. - Performance 2000
Nutritional Science - Applied Nutrition and Food Sci. 2000
Nutritional Science - Dietetics 2000
Nutritional Science - Food Management 2000
Organizational Studies 2000
Packaging 2000
Philosophy 2000
Physics, B.A. 2000
Physics, B.S. 2000
Physics - Prep for Teaching 2000
Political Science 2000
Undeclared - Pre-Nursing^ 3160
Psychology, B.A. 2000
Public Health 2000
Public Health - Community Health Ed. 2000
Public Health - Population Data Sci. 2000
Public Relations 2000
Social Science - Prep for Teaching, SS 2000
Social Work 2000
Sociology 2000
Software Engineering*^ 4500
Spanish 2000
Statistics 2000
Television, Radio, Film 2000
Theatre Arts 2000
Undeclared 2000
Undeclared - Pre-Nursing^ 3160
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies 2000

*College of Engineering - Applicants were ranked on on modified impaction index that included additional consideration of a student's math GPA.

^This major did not have the enrollment capacity to accommodate alternate majors.

ΔApplicants to this major are required to complete supplemental drawing exercises to be considered for admission.