More information on Cal Poly Pomona?

caliX1
Sun, 22 Mar 2015 18:18:23 +0000

I’m currently a student at Cal Poly Pomona. I’ll tell you this - CPP’s greatest strong suit in any academic program is Engineering, and that’s any of them including Civil. That’s what most people come to CPP for because of its reputation and program. I’m not an Engineering major, but I can tell you that the hands-on method is absolutely a thing here, almost in every program. I definitely agree that CSU education is more job-oriented while UC approach is more focused on research/reason. I can say that CPP has a pretty awesome campus life. It can get crap because people say its a commuter school (it is but not that exaggerated) but we’ve got plenty of residence halls on campus to make living here and the social life pretty awesome. The only time the campus really dies is over the weekends because people go home but that’s with a lot of schools in southern California. There’s always events being thrown on campus, some of the annual festivals are open to the public so they’re even bigger. Almost every social scene is here so there’s definitely parties (mostly off campus) for the party-crowd, but also more chill scenes for those that aren’t into it either. The classes I’ve been in aren’t large at all. They’ve all had 30-40 students at most so it’s still pretty easy for you to get to know professors (that is if you participate and are active). I can tell you CPP was NOT my first choice. The reviews made it sound like crap but I ended up coming here and now I wouldn’t trade it for a thing anymore. Cool school!