Southern California | Major City
20 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 36,123
CSUN graduates more than 11,000 students annually who go on to lead industries as varied as tech, entertainment, business, education, the arts, health and science, helping to create a better society and world. From diversity, equity, inclusion and justice to putting thousands of graduates out into the workforce each year, CSUN leads the pack among some of the best and most respected colleges and universities in the country. Today, CSUN attracts students determined to create thriving careers, purposeful lives and to build a brighter and more equitable future for all.
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Southern California | Major City
11 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 26,000
Cal State LA transforms lives and fosters thriving communities across greater Los Angeles. We cultivate and amplify our students' unique talents, diverse life experiences, and intellect through engaged teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and public service that support their overall success, well-being, and the greater good.Our academic programs will prepare you to meet the challenges of today’s world, find your place in it and have an impact. We cover nearly every field, from business to the arts, education to engineering, and science to nursing. We educate students from across the region and offer more than 100 cutting-edge academic programs, and pre-professional and certificate programs, as well as our Early Entrance Program and Study Abroad opportunities.
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https://www.calstatela.edu/univ/ppa/publicat/vsa/studentexperience.php
Southern California | Small/Medium City
18 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 39,967
CSULB enriches students' lives through globally informed, high-impact educational experiences with superior teaching, research, creative activity and action for the public good. Our campus spans 322 acres and even has its own zip code.
CSULB is the no. 1 most-applied-to campus in the CSU. We rank no. 3 in the nation for promoting social mobility among graduates; no. 18 best college in America by value; in the top 10% of U.S. universities for return on investment. California State University Long Beach envisions changing lives by expanding educational opportunities, championing creativity, and preparing leaders for a changing world. Come live and learn amongst the nearly 40,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world.
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Southern California | Large Town
10 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 29,103
Cal Poly Pomona is among the best public universities in the West and is nationally ranked for helping students achieve economic success. As an inclusive polytechnic university, we cultivate success through experiential learning, discovery and innovation. Our graduates are ready to succeed in the professional world on Day 1.
Faculty in all disciplines put theory to practice, providing students with opportunities to apply their knowledge in hands-on projects, research collaborations, and valuable internship and service-learning programs.
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Southern California | Small/Medium City
11 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 19,182
CSUSB reflects the dynamic diversity of the region and has the most diverse student population of any university in the Inland Empire, and it has the second highest African American and Hispanic enrollments of all public universities in California. Seventy percent of those who graduate are the first in their families to do so.
The university offers more than 70 traditional baccalaureate and master's degree programs, education credential and certificate programs, and a doctoral program. In recent years, CSUSB added its first doctorate (educational leadership), engineering program (computer science and engineering) and M.F.A. programs in creative writing and studio art/design. Every CSUSB academic program that is eligible has earned national accreditation.
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Southern California | Major City
20 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 36,637
For generations, SDSU has overcome hurdles and defied expectations, forging ahead to deliver academic excellence, student success and groundbreaking research. We will continue to do so as we build SDSU’s new chapter of inclusive opportunity for more students, reimagining a university designed to thrive for many years to come, and impacting San Diego, our border region, and the world as never before. SDSU formally recognizes Native and Indigenous peoples as traditional stewards of the land on which our university resides, and respects the enduring relationship that exists between Indigenous peoples and their ancestral territories. At San Diego State University, we recognize the land as Kumeyaay.
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Southern California | Large Town
10 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 14,299
The model urban university, California State University, Dominguez Hills has been transforming lives in the South Bay for more than 60 years with an educational environment that champions community, diversity, and equity. With a wide selection of outstanding and relevant academic programs, we prepare students to reach their academic as well as professional goals. With small classes led by renowned faculty, an excellent student-to-faculty ratio, unique internship and research opportunities, a strong community engagement, and well-balanced curriculums that build well-rounded knowledge, CSUDH offers an interactive learning environment inside and outside the classroom.
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Northern California | Major City
12 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment:
SF State is a major public urban university, situated in one of the world’s great cities. SF State offers bachelor’s degrees in 77 academic areas and master’s degrees in 63. It also has 16 credential programs, 57 certificate programs and doctorate, Ph.D. and clinical doctorate programs. San Francisco State professors are passionate leaders in their fields and devoted teachers. Whether it’s Biology Professor John Hafernik, who discovered “zombie bees,” or Guggenheim Fellow and queer, black cinema artist Assistant Professor Cheryl Dunye, San Francisco State’s 1,826 faculty are shaping the conversation in the arts, culture, technology, health care and science.
SF State prepares its students to become productive, ethical, active citizens with a global perspective.
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Southern California | Small/Medium City
15 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 40,386 students
Cal State Fullerton is a leading campus of the CSU, serving as an intellectual and cultural center for Southern California and driver of workforce and economic development. Cal State Fullerton is a top-five university in the West — a diverse and welcoming campus located in beautiful, sunny Orange County. Our caring faculty and staff are committed to helping you achieve success on campus and after graduation. And with a vibrant campus culture and NCAA sports, it’s easy to get involved and make lasting Titan friendships. We are an emerging national model for supporting student success through innovative high-impact educational and co-curricular experiences, including faculty-student collaborative research. Take a virtual tour:
Northern California | Small Town
12 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 6,000 students
Cal Poly Humboldt, founded in 1913, is a comprehensive, public university. Its 161-acre campus is located in Arcata, in Northern California. As the third polytechnic in the state and first in Northern California, we emphasize STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) and have a strong foundation in liberal arts. Humboldt offers a hands-on, impactful education in one of the most beautiful places in the world. So long as there are questions to ask and challenges to face, Cal Poly Humboldt will be here to find answers and solutions for today, tomorrow, and beyond. Takea virtual tour:
Northern California | Small/Medium City
13 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 13,840
Chico State is home to a community of 12,885 students in over 150 experiential programs. A U.S. News "Top Public School in the West" for 20 years running, we pride ourselves on our student-centered approach and our commitment to sustainability and community engagement. Our faculty encourage students to become the very best versions of themselves, focusing on personal and professional growth and developing in them the confidence to take daily action towards the issues and goals that are most important to them. Take a virtual tour:
https://www.csuchico.edu/admissions/visit/index.shtml
Northern California | Large Town
17 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: about 6,000 students
Sonoma State University, founded in 1961, is a public, comprehensive university. Its 269-acre campus is located in Rohnert Park, 45 miles north of San Francisco. Sonoma State is a small campus with big ideas, dedicated to the liberal arts and sciences. Students enjoy a high-quality, interdisciplinary education that features close interactions with faculty, research, innovation, and internship opportunities with a focus on inclusivity, integrity, and respect. SSU strives to graduate students who are ready to pursue fulfilling careers in our changing world and who are prepared to make informed decisions based on the pillars of our core values: diversity, social justice, sustainability, environmental inquiry, global awareness, and citizenship.
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Northern California | Large Town
12 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 808
Cal Maritime is located on 92 waterfront acres on the edge of the San Francisco Bay, 30 miles from San Francisco. The university is residential, academy-sized and offers a rigorous, structured, hands-on, and global experience for all its uniformed cadets. The uniform is not indicative of any military service obligation as there is none, but the uniform does signify the highly professional, advanced leadership, and teamwork focus that defines the common university experience that turns students, once strangers, into a committed, caring, cadet corps community. Cadets choose from 7 majors across three schools and 8 departments including business, international strategy and security, marine transportation, mechanical engineering, oceanography, and facilities and marine engineering technology. Cadets may minor in select majors, as well as law and mathematics. Select cadets who are admitted to the Strategic Sealift Midshipman Program (SSMP) will minor in Naval Science. Cal Maritime alumni are prepared for high-paying careers at sea and on-land.
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Northern California | Major City
22 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 30,061
We are California’s capital university, providing world-class, affordable education in the political, cultural, and economic heart of the Golden State.
We are a recognized leader in education, innovation, and engagement, dedicated to the belief that there are no limits to our students’ potential for excellence and success. We are powering the capital region through groundbreaking partnerships and more than 275,000 proud Hornet alumni. We are a vibrant and diverse community, united by our shared intellectual curiosity, commitment to improving the world around us, and passion for redefining the possible.
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https://www.csus.edu/experience/visit/campus-tours/groups.html
Northern California | Major City
15 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 12,181 students
Cal State East Bay has a campus in Hayward, as well as centers in Concord and downtown Oakland. For more than 60 years, Cal State East Bay has served the Bay Area and beyond, providing access to higher education for a diverse student body and advancing regional engagement. In recent years, the university and its many programs have been included in several state and national rankings. Cal State East Bay serves and values a student body with diverse lived experiences. Through innovative teaching, experiential learning, research, campus life and community engagement, our students, faculty and staff use their knowledge and experience to build and contribute to an equitable, inclusive and environmentally sustainable world.
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Central California | Large Town
15 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 9,560 students
Stanislaus State enjoys an ideal location in the heart of California's Central Valley, which is a short distance from the San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey, Big Sur, Yosemite National Park, the Sierra Nevada and the governmental hub of Sacramento. Stanislaus now offers two campuses, one in Turlock and one in Stockton, 45 majors and 44 minors within four academic colleges - College of Business Administration, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Education, Kinesiology and Social Work, and College of Science.
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Northern California | Major City
16 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 36,000 students
SJSU provides a comprehensive university education, granting bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in 250 areas of study. SJSU is an essential partner in the economic, cultural and social development of Silicon Valley and California. SJSU was the first public in the west. San José State University is in many ways the original Silicon Valley startup, continually evolving over more than 160 years to meet the needs of the region, state, nation and world. A comprehensive university education, granting bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in 250 areas of study, SJSU is an essential partner in the economic, cultural and social development of Silicon Valley and California. With more than 36,000 students, 4,300 employees and over 350,000 alumni, the Spartan spirit is deeply ingrained across the globe.
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Central California | Small/Medium City
19 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 23,929
With its local focus and global impact, Fresno State will be recognized as a model for advancing social, economic and environmental progress regionally, nationally and globally by providing an accessible, transformative education; conducting research on critical issues; and producing a generation of diverse leaders. The University offers 45 master's degree programs, an Educational Specialist degree, a Doctorate of Educational Leadership, a Doctorate of Physical Therapy, and Doctor of Nursing Practice and 9 certificates of advanced study. Graduate Studies provides direct access to program information, deadlines, criteria, program websites, and contact information for each Graduate Program Coordinator.
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https://studentaffairs.fresnostate.edu/are/recruitment-services/request-tours.html
Central California | Large Town
20 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 22,022
California leads the nation in the number of Fortune 1000 companies that call the state home and is a world leader in a wide range of industries: food and wine, space, entrepreneurship, climate, the built environment, and tech and humanity. With our wealth of connections to many of these companies, and our location in San Luis Obispo on California’s Central Coast halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cal Poly's six academic colleges offer more than 60 undergraduate majors and over 50 graduate programs. It offers one of the nation’s most prestigious undergraduate agriculture programs, the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences.
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Southern California | Large Town
10 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 14,299
California State University, Dominguez Hills has been transforming lives in the South Bay for more than 60 years with an educational environment that champions community, diversity, and equity. There are lots of reasons why CSUDH stands out among the nation's exceptional urban universities. Our university has a distinctive history, a vibrant academic environment, exciting research programs, and a tradition of service in the South Bay. Our students, faculty, and staff are some of the best and brightest and their hard work, creative spirit, and commitment to academic and professional excellence is unparalleled. The university is home to people whose innovative solutions have transformed our communities and our world.
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Southern California | Large Town
10 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment:
California State University San Marcos offers the ambiance of a small, personal campus with the unequaled value of the California State University. California State University San Marcos is a forward-focused institution, dedicated to preparing future leaders, building great communities and solving critical issues. Since its founding in 1989, California State University San Marcos has been dedicated to student success, social mobility and innovation. Through first-year programs, learning communities, internships, undergraduate research and much more, the university works to foster deep learning and academic success by engaging students in meaningful and innovative educational experiences. CSUSM is the only public four-year comprehensive university serving North San Diego, Southwest Riverside and South Orange counties.
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Central California | Large Town
12 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 7000
Cal Poly Humboldt, founded in 1913, is a comprehensive, public university. Its 161-acre campus is located in Arcata, in Northern California. As the third polytechnic in the state and first in Northern California, we emphasize STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) and have a strong foundation in liberal arts. Humboldt offers a hands-on, impactful education in one of the most beautiful places in the world. So long as there are questions to ask and challenges to face, Cal Poly Humboldt will be here to find answers and solutions for today, tomorrow, and beyond. Takea virtual tour:
Southern California | Large Town
0 Sports Offered
Housing Offered: Yes
Total Enrollment: 5,643 (as of Fall 2022)
Chico State is home to a community of 12,885 students in over 150 experiential programs. A U.S. News "Top Public School in the West" for 20 years running, we pride ourselves on our student-centered approach and our commitment to sustainability and community engagement. Our faculty encourage students to become the very best versions of themselves, focusing on personal and professional growth and developing in them the confidence to take daily action towards the issues and goals that are most important to them. Take a virtual tour:
https://www.csuchico.edu/admissions/visit/index.shtml
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