Backpacks and notebooks are ready as San Diego State University is on track to welcome a record number of enrolled students as the 2025-26 academic year begins on Monday, Aug. 25.
SDSU to Welcome Record Number of Students for 2025-26 Academic Year
For the first time in the university’s history, combined enrollment between SDSU and SDSU Imperial Valley is expected to surpass 40,000. Including SDSU Global Campus, the university’s online degree and professional certificate program, fall enrollment is expected to exceed 43,000.
SDSU will welcome more than 6,600 first-year students this fall, surpassing last year’s record of 6,538. These students were selected from a pool of more than 95,000 first-year applicants and over 123,000 total applicants to SDSU. Official enrollment numbers will be available following the 2025 Fall Census, which SDSU plans to confirm in October.
New academic offerings are also being introduced this year. The College of Arts and Letters is adding a Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Human Responsibility, the first degree of its kind in the California State University system. The program will begin in fall 2026, with prospective students able to apply this fall. Current students will have the option to switch to the new major later this semester. The program combines technical literacy with social sciences and the humanities.
Also new this fall is a Special Education minor. It is designed for students pursuing a teaching credential as well as those majoring in social work, psychology, and speech-language pathology.
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