Despite its thematic grounding in natural science and technology, like at all UCSC colleges, Crown students major in subjects across all disciplines.

Crown is made up of eight three-floor residence halls as well as having about half of the Crown-Merrill apartment buildings.

Since 2009, Crown College started the popular College game of Humans vs Zombies attracting up to one hundred students when they meet, this is also the location where the UCSC zombie defense council will be formed.

In the third week census of the fall of 2006, the 1,463 undergraduates affiliated with Crown included 449 new and 1,014 returning students.

Crown was the only college at UCSC with a predominantly male enrollment, with the whole campus having a 54% to 46% female majority.