Future `Runner Day
Future `Runner Day 2025 - Saturday, April 5, 2025
Future `Runner Day is to provide an open house day for all fall 2025 admitted students and their families to get excited about the campus and commit to attend CSUB. This event will offer campus tours, showcases, and presentations from our various schools. Admitted students should expect additional communication as the event date approaches. We look forward to seeing you. Go `Runners!
RSVP for Future `Runner Day
Please RSVP under the campus that you will be attending this fall 2025. CSUB will provide free transportation to main campus for students from Antelope Valley who wish to attend.
MAIN CAMPUS (Bakersfield): RSVP HERE!
ANTELOPE VALLEY (Lancaster): RSVP HERE!
Day of Event
Our event will begin promptly at 9am in the Icardo Center. Please arrive early. Check-in will begin at 8am. Enter campus from Camino Media (south side of campus) at Roadrunner Drive. Parking lots H and I are the closest to the Icardo Center and the preferred lots.
Parking is complementary in all CSUB lots.
Join Us!
Campus Map and Directions
FAQs
Future `Runner Day is not mandatory but is encouraged. This is a preview day for admitted fall 2025 students and their families to visit and tour campus. Those students who commit to attending CSUB will be invited to a mandatory orientation at a later date.
9am - 2pm.
Incoming first-year students are encouraged to bring their official in-progress high school transcripts. Incoming transfer students are encouraged to bring their official in-progress or final college transcripts.
All our parking lots will be open this day and parking will be complimentary for our visitors. The preferred parking lots for this event will be lots H and I near the Icardo Center (please refer to our campus map).
We will have staff and golf carts available to assist anyone who needs help getting to and from our various locations.
We will offer light continental refreshments that morning. We will also have various food trucks and campus eateries open with food/drinks for purchase.
Yes! We will have an area where students can submit their Intent to Enroll and receive some CSUB swag once they do.
We will have various campus tours occurring this day (full campus, Student Recreation Center, Walter Stiern Library, Student Housing, school buildings, etc.). Additionally, we will have various presentations and school showcases.
Yes, we encourage students to bring their families to this event.
Although we love our fur babies, only service animals will be allowed this day.
We strongly encourage all students to RSVP so our campus can plan accordingly.
Absolutely! This event is to give students a preview of CSUB and all that it has to offer. We hope you will choose CSUB!
Dress comfortably and wear comfortable walking shoes. March weather in Bakersfield can be unpredictable, so dressing in layers is best. Our CSUB Bookstore will also be open if you would like to purchase CSUB gear.
Additional Questions?
For additional questions, email us at futurerunnerday@csub.edu
Notice of Filming and Photography
Professional photographers and videographers are recording this event for use in educational and promotional efforts on behalf of California State University, Bakersfield.
By entering this event, you are providing your consent to be photographed, filmed, or otherwise recorded and release CSUB and all its representatives from liability from any use of your image, voice and/or likeness to support the promotional, educational or communication needs of CSUB.