by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
California State University - San Bernardino was awarded 113 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is educational administration.
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College Factual ranked CSUSB as #659 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when CSUSB held the #684 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
CSUSB is also ranked #82 out of 161 schools in California.
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With an acceptance rate of 91%, CSUSB has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
The student to faculty ratio is often used as a measure to gauge how much access students will have to their professors - the lower the number, the better. At California State University - San Bernardino, this rate is 23 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at California State University - San Bernardino is 49%. This is comparable to the national average of 47%.
California State University - San Bernardino has a freshmen retention rate of 80%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
When we say that a student has graduated on time, we mean that they have finished their bachelor's degree within four years. The on-time graduation rate at CSUSB is 19%. That's lower than the national rate of 33.3%
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 17,250 undergraduates at CSUSB with 14,580 being full-time and 2,670 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,949 | $6,490 | $8,999 | $12,729 | $16,487 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of CSUSB, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At CSUSB, approximately 18% of students took out student loans averaging $4,827 a year. That adds up to $19,308 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for CSUSB are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2393 |
| Phone: | 909-537-5000 |
| Website: | www.csusb.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 808 | $40,817 |
| General Psychology | 545 | $28,189 |
| Sociology | 277 | $30,126 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 239 | $35,029 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 223 | $24,979 |
| Health & Physical Education | 182 | $29,143 |
| Social Work | 173 | $39,145 |
| Computer Information Systems | 167 | $42,180 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 166 | $32,408 |
| Nursing | 124 | $93,142 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 14,180 students took at least one online class at California State University - San Bernardino. This is a decrease from the 15,353 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 14,180 | 2,087 |
| 2021-2022 | 15,353 | 3,479 |
| 2020-2021 | 19,657 | 19,519 |
| 2018-2019 | 5,529 | 609 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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