STUDENT SUCCESS
- To provide public accountability as required by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's standards, the CSUN Journalism Department maintains and annually posts information on several indicators of student success. The data include retention and graduation rates for first-time freshmen and new transfer students over a five-year period.
- The chart below also contains overall enrollment and other relevant information about majors and minors.
- Similar data about the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication as well as the entire university are available at CSUN Counts, maintained by the university's Office of Institutional Research.
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE
DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM
STUDENT SUCCESS RATES | Public Accountability 2020-21
RETENTION RATES FOR CSUN JOURNALISM MAJORS
| FIRST-TIME FRESHMEN ENROLLED ONE YEAR AFTER ENTRY | |||||
FALL ENTRY YEAR COHORTS | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | |
TOTAL | 59 | 83 | 78 | 63 | 82 | |
PERCENT WHO CONTINUED INTO SECOND YEAR (PERSISTENCE RATE) | 91.4 (54) | 86.8 (46) | 88.5 (69) | 71.4 (45) | 81.7 (67) | |
| NEW TRANSFERS ENROLLED ONE YEAR AFTER ENTRY | |||||
TOTAL | 83 | 45 | 65 | 50 | 94 | |
PERCENT WHO CONTINUED INTO SECOND YEAR (PERSISTENCE RATE) | 92.8 (77) | 84.4 (38) | 90.8 (59) | 86 (43) | 80.9 (76) | |
GRADUATION RATES FOR CSUN JOURNALISM MAJORS
- For the 2015 First-Time Freshmen cohort, 21 percent graduated in four years, compared to the campus-wide rate of 17 percent.
- For the 2017 First-Time Transfer cohort, 48 percent graduated in two years, compared to the campus-wide rate of 41 percent.
| FIRST-TIME FRESHMEN AFTER SIX YEARS | ||||
FALL ENTRY YEAR COHORT
| 2014 (2020) | 2013 (2019) | 2012 (2018) | 2011 (2017) | 2010 (2016) |
TOTAL | 110 | 133 | 84 | 137 | 142 |
PERCENT WHO GRADUATED | 70 (77) | 64.7 (86) | 65.5 (55) | 60.6 (83) | 60.6 (86) |
PERCENT LIKELY TO GRADUATE* (PERSISTENCE RATE) | 73.6 | 67.7 | 67.9 | 61.3 | 66.9 |
| NEW TRANSFER STUDENTS AFTER THREE YEARS | ||||
FALL ENTRY YEAR COHORT | 2017 (2020) | 2016 (2019) | 2015 (2018) | 2014 (2017) | 2013 (2016) |
TOTAL | 65 | 50 | 94 | 117 | 113 |
PERCENT WHO GRADUATED | 83 (54) | 74 (37) | 64.9 (61) | 76.1 (89) | 71.7 (81) |
PERCENT LIKELY TO GRADUATE** (PERSISTENCE RATE) | 89.2 | 82 | 73.4 | 76.9 | 78.8 |
* These students either graduated from or were enrolled at CSUN after six years and are considered likely to graduate.
** These students either graduated from or were enrolled at CSUN after three years and are considered likely to graduate
JOURNALISM GRADUATES BY YEAR AND PROGRAM
| 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 | 2016-17 | 2015-16 |
JOURNALISM MAJOR | 139 | 154 | 144 | 194 | 199 |
JOURNALISM MINOR | 30 | 32 | 31 | 27 | 11 |
SPANISH-LANGUAGE INTERDISCIPLINARY MINOR* | TBD | TBD | 43 | N/A | 13 |
* The majority are Journalism majors.
JOURNALISM ACADEMIC YEAR GRADE POINT AVERAGES
FALL/CSUN | 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 | 2016-17 | 2015-16 |
AVERAGE GPA IN MAJOR | 3.11 | 2.92 | 2.88 | 2.80 | 2.83 |
ACADEMIC YEAR | 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 | 2016-17 | 2015-16 |
FIRST-TIME FRESHMEN AT EXIT | 2.88 | 3.00 | 2.97 | 3.02 | 2.98 |
FIRST-TIME TRANSFER AT EXIT | 3.12 | 2.95 | 2.98 | 2.98 | 2.91 |
JOURNALISM UNDERGRADUATES BY FALL SEMESTER HEADCOUNT
| 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017* | 2016 |
FRESHMAN | 55 | 76 | 82 | 107 | 122 |
SOPHOMORE | 64 | 75 | 83 | 91 | 82 |
JUNIOR | 168 | 167 | 140 | 164 | 175 |
SENIOR | 174 | 148 | 185 | 185 | 237 |
TOTAL | 461 | 466 | 490 | 547 | 616 |
*CSUN imposed enrollment impaction, beginning in Fall 2016. This reduced eligible applications and admittance to students in Tier 1 boundary.
DEGREE RECIPIENTS’ ACADEMIC YEAR HEADCOUNT BY ETHNICITY
FIRST-TIME FRESHMEN | 2019-20 | 2018-29 | 2017-18 | 2016-17 | 2015-16 |
TRADITIONALLY UNDERSERVED | 6 | 56 | 66 | 71 | 70 |
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– African American | 7 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 15 |
– Latina/o | 59 | 43 | 56 | 54 | 51 |
ASIAN | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
WHITE | 4 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 18 |
MULTI-RACE/OTHER | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
UNKNOWN | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
INTERNATIONAL | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
TOTAL | 81 | 77 | 86 | 89 | 103 |
FIRST-TIME TRANSFER | 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 | 2016-17 | 2015-16 |
TRADITIONALLY UNDERSERVED | 40 | 55 | 29 | 62 | 52 |
– American Indian/Alaskan native |
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– African American | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 8 |
– Latina/o | 37 | 45 | 18 | 49 | 37 |
ASIAN | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
WHITE | 14 | 14 | 16 | 26 | 26 |
MULTI-RACE/OTHER | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 |
UNKNOWN |
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INTERNATIONAL |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
TOTAL | 55 | 77 | 58 | 103 | 96 |
DEGREE RECIPIENTS’ HEADCOUNT BY GENDER
| 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 | 2016-17 | 2015-16 |
| FIRST-TIME FRESHMEN | ||||
Female | 60 (74%) | 57 (74%) | 65 (75%) | 65 (73%) | 49 (78%) |
Male | 21 (26%) | 20 (26%) | 21 (24%) | 24 (27%) | 14 (22%) |
| FIRST-TIME TRANSFER | ||||
Female | 34 (54.5%) | 45 (58.4%) | 38 (66%) | 66 (64%) | 26 (52%) |
Male | 25 (45.5%) | 32 (41.5%) | 20 (34%) | 37 (36%) | 24 (48%) |
JOURNALISM UNDERGRADUATES HEADCOUNT BY INTEREST
| 2020 | 2019 | 2018* | 2017 | 2016 |
– JOURNALISM | 3 | 8 | 30 | 54 | 85 |
– OPTION: BROADCAST | 174 | 139 | 143 | 166 | 157 |
– BROADCAST | 3 | 19 |
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– GENERAL | 15 | 65 | 201 | 174 | 216 |
– MAGAZINE | 1 | 7 | 16 | 29 | 32 |
– JOURNALISM MAJOR | 155 | 126 |
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– PRINT/ONLINE (NEWSPAPER) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 13 |
– PHOTOJOURNALISM | 1 | 2 | 12 | 25 | 22 |
– PUBLIC RELATIONS | 3 | 9 | 84 | 87 | 91 |
– OPTION: PUBLIC RELATIONS | 105 | 90 |
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TOTAL | 461 | 466 | 490 | 547 | 616 |
* In Fall 2018, Journalism enacted a sweeping curriculum redesign, eliminating the multiple emphases or concentrations in the major and creating formal options in Broadcast or Public Relations. Previously, starting in 2009, all journalism majors were listed as “general” interest, although the majority continued to follow a particular emphasis, such as “broadcast” or “public relations,” in their course selections.
JOURNALISM UNDERGRADUATES / FALL SEMESTER HEADCOUNT BY PELL GRANT
| 2020 | 2019 | 2018* | 2017 | 2016 | 2005 |
GRANT RECIPIENT TOTAL | 228 | 262 | 277 | 337 | 352 | 223 |
NO GRANT | 233 | 204 | 213 | 210 | 264 | 451 |
TOTAL MAJORS | 461 | 466 | 490 | 547 | 616 | 674 |
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GRANT RECIPIENT PERCENT | 49.5 | 56.1 | 56.5 | 61.6 | 57.1 | 33.1 |
NO GRANT | 50.5 | 43.8 | 43.5 | 38.4 | 42.9 | 66.9 |
