Is Sac State a good engineering school?

ucbalumnus
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 04:26:54 +0000

HPuck35:

Classes being impacted and taking 5 years to graduate is a common problem at many of the CSUs.

Slow graduation at CSUs is probably related to things other than class impaction (since they designate majors as impacted in order to avoid enrolling more students in the major than they can offer classes to). The likely causes:

Low admission selectivity at many CSUs. Many require remedial courses, and some may not be able to handle 15+ credit course loads every semester or quarter needed to graduate in 8 semesters or 12 quarters.

Many students who work while attending school and take light full time (12 credits) or part time (<12 credits) per semester or quarter instead of the 15+ needed to graduate in 8 semesters or 12 quarters.

Relatively voluminous general education requirements.