UCI vs Cal Poly SLO for Physics

Yomama12
Sat, 02 Apr 2016 19:43:44 +0000

The UC’s are research institutions and the CSU’s, including Cal Poly are not. I would call each schools Physics department and ask how many of their graduates go on to get doctorates and which schools they get into.

My son was interested in studying Physics at Cal Poly and going to Berkeley for graduate study. Berkeley told him they had never accepted a Cal Poly student in the graduate department. This caused him to decide to go straight to Cal for his undergraduate degree, although he has since changed his major.