San Francisco State / San Jose state

turtlerock
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:18:34 +0000

But then SJSU is not as recognize as SFSU?



I wouldn’t say that. They are both equally reconized in the CSU system. San Francisco is a world-known city, but San Jose actually has a higher population and a much larger land area. So if zooming in on a map, SJ would pop up quicker than SF. I think most in the US would generalize both as just being the the Bay Area. I’m not sure about internationally though.



btw, SF gave me CS major, but SJ gave me undeclear even though I chose CS.



That’s because the CS major at SJSU is impacted, but it isn’t at SFSU. SJSU has admitted you ‘undeclared’ or ‘undeclared engineering’ because they are already considered at their limit of declared CS majors. Refer to the Impacted Programs Matrix for CSUs here: http://www.calstate.edu/sas/documents/impactedprogramsmatrix.pdf

This can be a bad thing, and a determining factor in choosing which one to attend. Typically, impacted majors on a campus make it harder for students to register for needed classes to move on to more advanced studies and perpetuates their stay at that school. This is more likely to happen at the lower-division classes since every student of that major is required to take the same ones whereas upper-division classes have more flexibility in choosing classes to cover a single requirement.