News article re admissions

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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Continuing the discussion from Cal Poly Class of 2026 Freshman Waitlist Discussion:

Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo receives more and more applications nearly every year, but it has hit its capacity limit.

Therefore, it has very limited space available for hopeful students wishing to earn a degree at the California State University campus.

Search The Tribune’s database to see how many people applied to each major and college at Cal Poly, and how many spaces spots were available.

The above is a cut and paste from the San Luis Obispo Tribune. The paywall didn’t let me share the link but in the article is data base with the numbers. I will keep trying to figure out how to share but……

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I hope it’s okay to paste the data from the article here? Note that it only shows # applicant spaces, so it doesn’t use the yield multiplier, which probably varies by major, but CC experts tell us to use 3x. For example, the 80 spaces for Aerospace Engineering with a 3x multiplier means SLO might admit, or offer spots to, 240 applicants, for a 12.7% admit rate for Aero Eng First Time Freshman.

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Program ▲ First-time freshman applications First-time freshman spaces available First-time freshman percent of applicant spaces available Transfer applications Transfer spaces available Transfer percent of applicant spaces available
Aerospace Engineering 1,885 80 4.2% 170 20 11.8%
Agricultural Business 596 161 27.0% 84 17 20.2%
Agricultural Communication 129 42 32.6% 15 4 26.7%
Agricultural Systems Management 67 24 35.8% 5 2 40.0%
Agriculture & Environ. Plan Sciences 275 76 27.6% 75 18 24.0%
Agriculture Science 119 27 22.7% 38 12 31.6%
Animal Science 1,339 188 14.0% 179 21 11.7%
Anthropology & Geography 215 35 16.3% 60 6 10.0%
Architectural Engineering 496 80 16.1% 30 1 3.3%
Architecture 1,869 161 8.6% 307 35 11.4%
Art & Design 878 53 6.0% 147 9 6.1%
Biochemistry 1,251 70 5.6% 52 5 9.6%
Biological Sciences 4,094 175 4.3% 330 10 3.0%
Biomedical Engineering 1,953 96 4.9% 92 8 8.7%
BioResource and Agricultural Engineering 122 54 44.3% 8 2 25.0%
Business Administration 7,209 585 8.1% 1,676 162 9.7%
CAED TOTAL 3,062 410 13.4% 464 50 10.8%
CAFES TOTAL 5,242 1,071 20.4% 730 129 17.7%
CENG TOTAL 19,986 1,314 6.6% 2,369 247 10.4%
Chemistry 505 45 8.9% 60 5 8.3%
Child Development 623 45 7.2% 135 22 16.3%
City & Regional Planning 124 30 24.2% 23 5 21.7%
Civil Engineering 1,173 150 12.8% 186 30 16.1%
CLA TOTAL 11,049 850 7.7% 2,443 210 8.6%
Communications Studies 831 102 12.3% 413 18 4.4%
Comparative Ethnic Studies 76 11 14.5% 13 5 38.5%
Computer Engineering 1,443 94 6.5% 136 31 22.8%
Computer Science 6,784 210 3.1% 931 35 3.8%
Construction Management 375 100 26.7% 70 4 5.7%
CSM TOTAL 11,379 740 6.5% 1,187 80 6.7%

Table: Mackenzie Shuman Source: Cal Poly

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Program ▲ First-time freshman applications First-time freshman spaces available First-time freshman percent of applicant spaces available Transfer applications Transfer spaces available Transfer percent of applicant spaces available
Dairy Science 39 11 28.2% 6 1 16.7%
Economics 1,107 70 6.3% 227 15 6.6%
Electrical Engineering 1,060 180 17.0% 190 28 14.7%
English 491 80 16.3% 124 9 7.3%
Env. Earth & Soil Sci. 307 63 20.5% 42 3 7.1%
Environmental Engineering 683 50 7.3% 47 10 21.3%
Environmental Mgmt. & Protection 767 85 11.1% 89 11 12.4%
Food Science 259 56 21.6% 18 2 11.1%
Forest and Fire Sciences 413 60 14.5% 49 10 20.4%
General Engineering 455 65 14.3% 11 5 45.5%
Graphic Communications 395 73 18.5% 50 5 10.0%
History 382 68 17.8% 105 18 17.1%
Industrial Engineering 253 60 23.7% 21 8 38.1%
Industrial Technology & Packaging 130 45 34.6% 10 3 30.0%
Interdisciplinary Studies 234 24 10.3% 24 5 20.8%
Journalism 435 77 17.7% 61 9 14.8%
Kinesiology 1,757 75 4.3% 258 15 5.8%
Landscape Architecture 198 39 19.7% 34 5 14.7%
Liberal Studies 457 80 17.5% 110 20 18.2%
Manufacturing Engineering 62 25 40.3% 8 7 87.5%
Marine Sciences 678 25 3.7% 54 2 3.7%
Materials Engineering 194 48 24.7% 29 12 41.4%
Mathematics 639 75 11.7% 89 5 5.6%
Mechanical Engineering 3,349 230 6.9% 464 48 10.3%
Microbiology 363 25 6.9% 25 4 16.0%
Music 157 17 10.8% 24 3 12.5%
Nutrition 397 102 25.7% 62 4 6.5%
OCOB TOTAL 8,446 700 8.3% 1,913 180 9.4%
Philosophy 176 30 17.0% 43 10 23.3%
Physics (BS) 417 50 12.0% 44 5 11.4%

Table: Mackenzie Shuman Source: Cal Poly

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Program ▲ First-time freshman applications First-time freshman spaces available First-time freshman percent of applicant spaces available Transfer applications Transfer spaces available Transfer percent of applicant spaces available
Political Science 1,493 82 5.5% 244 20 8.2%
Psychology 3,700 71 1.9% 735 40 5.4%
Public Health 806 60 7.4% 123 8 6.5%
Recreation, Parks and Tourism Admin. 251 79 31.5% 33 13 39.4%
Sociology 782 66 8.4% 227 22 9.7%
Software Engineering 692 25 3.6% 84 5 6.0%
Spanish (Modern Languages & Literatures) 38 5 13.2% 12 4 33.3%
Statistics 412 60 14.6% 42 1 2.4%
Theatre Arts 143 11 7.7% 26 5 19.2%
Wine and Viticulture 162 43 26.5% 27 9 33.3%

Table: Mackenzie Shuman Source: Cal Poly

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