“St. Francis of the Guns” by Benny Bufano stands in front of the Science Building at City College of San Francisco’s main campus. Many of the college’s course offerings aren’t meeting student demand.

If you have recently been inspired to enroll in classes at City College of San Francisco for the fall term, you may be disappointed. The number of scheduled classes in many fields is insufficient to meet student demand.  

Registration for classes for the fall 2026 term began on April 28. By June 4, if not before then, all the scheduled art classes were fully enrolled. Some students could be lucky and find an art class with an opening due to a student dropping it or because a new class was added to the schedule.

What is different from the recent past is that there are only 86 art classes scheduled this term compared to 154 for the fall 2019 term before the COVID pandemic.

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At the start of the fall 2026 term, there were 48 scheduled biology classes, compared to 70 in fall 2019. By June 4, before two more classes were added, all 46 biology classes, except two classes of Principles of Food Safety, were fully enrolled with waitlists. As of Aug. 14, five days before the start of the term, all 48 classes were fully enrolled, and 32 did not allow adds to waitlists that are limited to 10 students. There were 390 potential students on waitlists for biology classes, and that doesn’t include those who want to take a class but are unable to or feel too discouraged to add........

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