In a ritual long absent from the campus, students flocked to Cal State Northridge in droves for the first day of the fall semester, producing a 7.5 percent jump in opening day enrollments that was the largest such increase in two decades. CSUN's opening day enrollment hit 25,789 students, an increase of 1,798 over last fall's 23,991 tally. The opening day student headcount also reached its highest mark since before the 1994 Northridge earthquake and keeps the campus on track for a final fall enrollment of about 26,500. We're in a growth industry. No one is going to become president of the bank without a college education.
People know that.
CSUN is a stepping-stone to their dreams and aspirations. According to university records, the last time the campus had such a brisk fall opening day was a nearly 10 percent increase to begin the 1975 year. This fall is the second year of enrollment increases following four consecutive years of declines that began in 1991. Among the other colleges, Health and Human Development posted a 10 percent increase, while Education was up eight percent. Science and Mathematics and Business Administration and Economics each gained three percent.