Ranking the CSUs

CalDud
Sun, 17 Nov 2013 21:46:14 +0000

For students nowadays, I’d say the CSU’s look like:
Cal Poly SLO (people select this over high tier UC’s)
Cal Poly Pomona (people select this over lower a lot (UCSC, UCR, UCM) and sometimes mid-tier UC’s (UCD, UCI, UCSB)…the location is crap, you go here for the good academics but the STEM programs are >> all other programs besides architecture)
San Diego State (location, social life, not academics)
San Jose State University (proximity to silicon valley)
CSU Long Beach (location)
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CSUN (at the bottom)

The rest people forget about most of the time. They know Long Beach is a nice location, but it’s got crap academics. Chico is seen as a stoner/party school. The graduates I’ve met are dumb as rocks.

I’d come to Cal Poly SLO for anything, but I’d only come to Cal Poly Pomona if you’re a STEM or architecture major. STEM is strong here.