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CSU San Marcos by the numbers
A brief profile of our current enrollment (2007):
- Total enrollment: 9,159. Undergraduate students: 8,577; graduate students: 582.
- CSUSM is home to a diverse population of students. Our ethnicity: 1 percent Native American/American Indian, 3 percent African American, 12 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, 22 percent Hispanic, 50 percent Caucasian, 4 percent other, and 8 percent not specified.
- 44 percent of our students receive financial assistance.
- 37 percent of our student population is male and 63 percent is female.
- 27 percent are the first members of their families to seek a college degree.
- Top 10 majors (highest enrollment) are business administration, liberal studies, communication, psychology, human development, pre-nursing, criminology & justice studies, biology, sociology, and kinesiology.
- The mean GPA is 3.17 for enrolled freshmen and 2.95 for transfer students.