Admissions ~ Undergraduate Application Procedures

If applying for part-time or full-time undergraduate programs of study in day or evening classes, you must file a complete undergraduate application. The $55 nonrefundable application fee should be in the form of a check or money order payable to California State University or by credit card if submitting the online application, and may not be transferred or used to apply to another term. An alternate major may be indicated on the application. The applications of persons denied admission to an impacted or closed campus may be rerouted to another campus at no cost, but only if the applicant is CSU-eligible.

Selection of Major

The majors offered at CSUMB are listed in the Undergraduate Education section of this catalog. You should review these descriptions before filing an application. CSUMB accepts students who are undecided about their major. If undecided, use the undeclared category on the application form.

Impacted Programs

The CSU designates programs as impacted when more applications from minimally CSU regularly eligible students are received in the initial filing period (October and November for fall terms, June for winter terms, August for spring terms, February for summer terms) than can be accommodated. Some programs are impacted at every campus where they are offered; others are impacted only at some campuses. You must meet supplementary admission criteria if applying to an impacted program.

The CSU will announce during the fall filing period those programs that are impacted and the supplementary criteria campuses will use. Detailed impaction information is available at calstate.edu/impactioninfo.shtml and via CSUmentor.edu. The impaction announcement will also be published in the official CSU publications distributed to high school and college counselors, and made available online at http://www.calstate.edu/. Information about the supplementary criteria is also provided to program applicants.

You must file your application for admission to an impacted program during the initial filing period. If you wish to be considered in impacted programs at more than one campus, you should file an application at each campus for which you seek admissions consideration.

Supplementary Admission Criteria

Each campus with impacted programs uses supplementary admission criteria in screening applicants. Supplementary criteria may include rank-ordering of freshman applicants based on the CSU eligibility index or rank-ordering of transfer applicants based on the overall transfer grade point average, completion of specified prerequisite courses, and a combination of campus-developed criteria. Applicants for freshman admission to impacted campuses or programs are required to submit scores on either the SAT or the ACT. For fall admission, you should take tests as early as possible and no later than October of the preceding year.

The supplementary admission criteria used by the individual campuses to screen applicants are made available by the campuses to all applicants seeking admission to an impacted program. Details regarding the supplemental admissions criteria are also provided at calstate.edu/impactioninfo.shtml.