CSUSB Advising Podcast

Ep. 101 - Maximize Your Summer: CSUSB Summer Breakdown

Matt Markin Season 1 Episode 101

Thinking about taking classes this summer at CSUSB? In this episode, Academic Advisor Matt Markin chats with Jonathan Rangel, Program Coordinator for Summer Sessions, to break down everything you need to know for Summer 2025. Jonathan covers key dates, class options, how many units you can take, and what kind of financial aid is available. Whether you're looking to catch up, get ahead, or just stay on track, summer is a great time to make moves. You'll also hear about the Early Summer Starter Program for new students, and how to get your questions answered. Tune in and get summer-ready! 

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Matt Markin  
Hello and welcome to the CSUSB advising podcast. This is Matt Markin, an academic advisor in the asua academic advising office. And on today's episode, we're learning more about the 2025 summer sessions. When can I register? What are the tuition fees? What about financial aid? Well, let's find out more from our guest, and that is Jonathan Rangel, program coordinator with the College of Extended and Global Education. Jonathan, welcome.

Jonathan Rangel  
Hello, Matt. It's a pleasure to be on your advising podcast show, and I cannot wait to discuss more about our summer session in detail.

Matt Markin  
Yeah, absolutely. 100% but before we jump into those questions, always think it's nice for our listeners to get to know our guests. So can you tell us a little about yourself being at CSUSB?

Jonathan Rangel  
Yeah, that's a great question as well. My name is Jonathan Rangel. I actually serve as the program coordinator for our summer session, along with our mentor your session programs as well. I've served in this capacity for about two years at this point, within the College of Extended in global education, and I am the person that pretty much is the forefront of our summer marketing operations, our table operations and so forth. 

Matt Markin  
So, you're going to be a very busy person with all of this. So I'm glad that you're on to talk about summer with us today. So let's, let's dive right into it. So when do summer classes start?

Jonathan Rangel  
Yeah, that's, I think there should be a great question. So summer, our summer session actually, is divided into three different sessions. So our first five week session courses begin on June 2, they run until July 7. We have a 10 week session courses which also begin on June 2, and they conclude on August 13. And lastly, we have a second five week session, courses which begin on July 9 and in on August 13.

Matt Markin  
3 different sessions that students might be able to take advantage of and take classes in a question we get sometimes from students is like, well, because they're condensed sessions, we have like the five week sessions you were mentioning the 10 week session are summer classes the same amount of units as classes that they might take in the regular semesters like fall and spring semester.

Jonathan Rangel  
Yeah. So to respond to your question, the units that are earned in summer session, whether they be in the first five week session, second five week session, or even the 10 week session courses, all carry the same amount of unit balance that you earn in a semester system.

Matt Markin  
All right, awesome. Well, that's good, good to hear. So my next question then would be, all right, if I'm a student, I want to know how many units can I take in the summer?

Jonathan Rangel  
Yes. So since summer is a very compacted semester in our five week session courses, whether it be the first five week session or the second five week sessions, students are only limited to take seven units in those sessions. But in the 10 week session, students can actually take up to 14 minutes in the 10 week session. However, students do have the ability to match so let's say a student wants to enroll any five week session course, any 10 week session course, they can do that, granted that they still within the enrollment limits. So students would pretty much need to be below 14 units in the 10 week session course, and below seven units in the five week session

Matt Markin  
Courses, sometimes students might think that I can't get any financial aid during summer. Is that true? Is there actually financial aid that is available to a student, and how would they know if they're eligible?

Jonathan Rangel  
Excellent question. So our department in particular does not manage actually, a lot of the financial aid aspects. So I can't get specific details in regards to how to be eligible financial aid and others those details in particular, but I will give general advice for our information regarding our summer financial aid and that State University grants will be offered, federal loans, Pell Grant, Pell Grant, two and parent loans will all be offered during these summer sessions, so similar to kind of the spring in the fall semesters.

Matt Markin  
So with this next question, then, so at least we've addressed that there potentially could be some financial aid for students, so another incentive, maybe for students to definitely register for classes for summer, in addition to either getting caught up or getting ahead on requirements. But let's just maybe talk about cost. What would be the cost for classes and for this if anyone is listening to this podcast recording versus watching the video version, you could go to see. Ususb.edu, forward slash summer, and then you can click on the tuition and fees, and then you'll be able to kind of listen along, and also be able to see the fees that we're going to be discussing right now.

Jonathan Rangel  
Yeah, that's a great question. And just to give you a background about our summer fee structure, I'm going to start off first with our undergraduate fee structures and move on to our different students. So our undergraduate students will enrolled in zero to six units, will be charged $431 per unit, up to a fee cap of $1,764 so let's say this put in real terms. So for example, a student taking six units will be charged $1,764 plus the additional $286 $20 in mandatory campus fees, rather than the standard per unit rate, which should come out to about 2500 so students in this fee structure have an incentive to take up to six units, since the they will be actually paying less than what it's actually charged at the per unit basis. This structure also follows for students taking 6.1 in units and above. So students will be charged $318 per unit. If they take 6.1 units and above, and they will also be capped at $3,000.42 on top of the additional mandatory campuses of $286.20 the same structure also applies to our credential students. Who are enrolled in zero to six units, they will be charged $498 per unit with the maximum cap of $2,049 and in credential, students taking 6.1 units and above, will be charged $367 per unit with a maximum of 3531 on Top of the additional campus fees of $286.20 and last, lastly, graduate students will be charged $538 per unit if they take zero to six units with a maximum cap of $2,208 and also, if they be interested in taking classes that are above six units, they would be charged $397 per unit with a maximum of $3,804 on top of the additional mandatory campus fees of $286.28 I know it's a lot to digest, but this is just the way that our fees are structured. This year, I also wanted to bring attention to you as well our non resident and international student fees. If you scroll down on the page, if you're watching this broadcast right now, or if you're actually listening to the audio podcast, you'll see that our non resident and international students will also be charged $420 for each full unit, in addition to those campus fees that I just explained earlier.

Matt Markin  
And I guess now that we've kind of talked about, like the fees, I talked a little bit about, the financial aid, the different sessions that that summer has is the class schedule already out there for students to view.

Jonathan Rangel  
Great question as well. And the CSUSB summer session class schedule has actually been available since Friday, February 21 so if you were to go back to the website that I mentioned, which is csusb.edu, forward slash summer, you will notice that there's actually a tab on the very top of our website page with this class schedule. You'll just click on that and you'll be able to be all of the different course offerings that will be offered for summer sessions. So I believe there's over 400 different classes that are offered over the summer, with many of them being fully online options as well. So it's a great thing to consider, for sure.

Matt Markin  
And then, when can students start to register?

Jonathan Rangel  
So students will be able to register through their my coyote borough, their student center on April 7. So each student will be given a specific enrollment date and time, which will also be located on their student center, but registration overall begins on April 7,.

Matt Markin  
And so that kind of just means too, like, if a student is listening right now, whatever your registration day and time is, make sure that you try to register on that day and time to get better your chances of getting enrolled in classes as Yeah, more students will be opened up every hour on some of these days. So you want to make sure you can take advantage of your specific registration date and time. Now what if I'm a new student at CSUSB. Starting in the fall 2025 semester. Am I allowed to take summer classes, or is there a certain department I should contact? Y

Jonathan Rangel  
Yes, and actually admitted students who will be coming in in the fall semester. Fall 2025 semester, will have the ability to actually take classes early. So. We have a program which is called the early summer starter program, which is actually administered by the admissions department, and there usually is an application on their website each year, probably opens around around mid May or so, and students will just simply complete that application and will be able to take classes early in the summer. If they have any additional questions regarding this early summer starter program, I would highly encourage them to contact the admissions department to get more information regarding the early summer starter program.

Matt Markin  
All right, cool. Now let's say I'm a student and I have maybe some additional questions. Who should I reach out to? Should I be going to this website? Should I be emailing going on social media? What should I do?

Jonathan Rangel  
Yeah. So us, as summer session, we have various channels, various means of contacting us. I would highly encourage everybody to contact the phone number which we can be reached at area code 909-537-3978, in addition to this, you can also be contacted via email, which is summer@csusb.edu and finally, we actually have an Instagram page as well. So I would highly encourage everybody, if they have questions, to send us a DM direct message at CSUSB summer, one of us on our staff will respond to your questions in a timely manner. All

Matt Markin  
right, well, Jonathan, that's all the questions I have. Thank you so much for sharing information about summer session with our CSUSB students.

Jonathan Rangel  
It was my pleasure, and I really hope you encourage all the students listening to this to enroll in summer courses, because it's a great opportunity to get ahead and to graduate any quicker pace.

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