California State University-Sacramento (Sacramento State) Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

All undergraduate Business programs at Sacramento State have been officially designated as impacted, which means they apply supplemental criteria beyond the standard CSU eligibility threshold. For impacted programs, applicants are rank-ordered based on their "a-g" GPA plus supplemental factors; higher GPA applicants are admitted first until cohort capacity is reached. Because CSU permanently eliminated SAT/ACT from admissions decisions (test scores may only be used for course placement), there is no test score to compensate for a lower GPA. Your transcript is your entire academic case. If Business is your intended major and your GPA is borderline, verify the current supplemental criteria for Sacramento State's Business programs on the undergraduate admissions page before you apply - the specific cutoff for the most recent admission cycle is your real target, not the system-wide 2.5 minimum.

Sacramento State's Center for California Studies administers the Capital Fellows Programs - nationally recognized, paid, full-time fellowships placing college graduates in California's Assembly, Senate, Executive Branch, and Judicial Administration Branch for 10?11 months. Fellows receive a monthly stipend, full health benefits, and upon completion a Graduate Certificate in Applied Policy and Government from Sac State. The December application deadline is hard (for 2025?26: December 8, 11:59 PM PST; letters due December 15); interviews are held in early March. The program requires only a bachelor's degree and a 2.5 cumulative GPA - no preference is given to major, political party, or how recently you graduated. Fellows from business, STEM, social sciences, and humanities have all been selected. If California state government policy is your career direction, this is the most direct practicum path in the country, and Sac State's geographic position is the reason it exists here.

The Traditional BSN at Sacramento State is a two-step process: you apply to the university through the standard CSU application, then submit a separate supplemental nursing application directly to the School of Nursing - NOT through NursingCAS. The minimum qualifying nursing GPA is 3.3 calculated on eight prerequisite and four corequisite courses, but admitted students for Fall 2025 averaged a TEAS score of 93.22% (range 85.3?98.7%) and the program is so competitive that a 3.909 GPA combined with an 81% TEAS resulted in 43rd alternate status. A Casper situational judgment assessment is also required (due March 9). You can omit up to two grades in the GPA calculation. Start prerequisites 18 months before your intended application date, prepare for the TEAS aiming for 90%+, and treat the nursing application as a distinct, competitive process unrelated to general Sac State admissions.

Every year, Sacramento State Government Department students intern with state legislators, legislative committee staffs, lobbying groups, administrative agencies, the Governor's Office, county supervisors, and city councils through GOVT 195 (up to 6 units). The Sacramento Semester Program - open to students from any CSU campus - provides six units of paid legislative internship combined with a six-unit seminar in state government. The Government/Journalism interdisciplinary BA is among a small number of programs in the country designed around a capital city's professional ecosystem. For students in political science, public policy, communications, or pre-law, Sacramento's status as California's state capital means the difference between reading about policymaking as a case study and walking into the Capitol building as an intern on Monday morning. Use the location from day one - it compounds over four years.