College Rankings - Most Freshmen in California

The nice thing about being a freshman is that you only have to go through it once. Here are the schools where you'll have the biggest number of first-year students in the same boat as you.

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Cal State Northridge
Northridge, CA
5,195
2
University of California - Davis
Davis, CA
4,705
3
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
4,636
4
UC Riverside
Riverside, CA
4,469
5
University of California - Irvine
Irvine, CA
4,411
6
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, CA
4,316
7
University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
4,109
8
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
4,098
9
Cal State Long Beach
Long Beach, CA
3,988
10
UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA
3,949
11
Cal State Fullerton
Fullerton, CA
3,912
12
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
3,659
13
UC Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
3,606
14
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA
3,339
15
Sacramento State
Sacramento, CA
3,151
16
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
2,931
17
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
2,761
18
Cal State Fresno
Fresno, CA
2,700
19
Cal State Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
2,061
20
Cal State East Bay
Hayward, CA
2,050
21
Cal Poly Pomona
Pomona, CA
2,019
22
California State University - Chico
Chico, CA
1,900
23
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
1,707
24
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA
1,574
25
University of California - Merced
Merced, CA
1,339