2018 Fact Book Follow us on social media! @calstate 401 Golden Shore, Long Beach, CA 90802-4210 @thecsu calstate.edu TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 6 Graduation Initiative 2025 8 Students • Enrollment • Demographics • Applying • Costs 16 Faculty and Staff • Demographics • Research and Creative Activities 20 CSU Funding 26 CSU Leadership INTRODUCTION “The California State University stands as a beacon of excellence and diversity—of people, pedagogy and place—with a singular determination to provide students access to opportunity, leading to transformation of self and society. We encourage our students and alumni to be passionate, empathetic and forever curious. We ask them to be consequential in their actions, and we look to them to embody the Californian spirit.” Timothy P. White Chancellor, California State University 1 NATIONS LAREST OPPORTUNITY The California State University 4-YEAR PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SYSTEM THE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY The CSU creates opportunity for the promotes student success through diverse students of California to reach opportunity and a high-quality SACRAMENTO their educational goals and become leading citizens, opening the doors of education that prepares students 800 MILES college to nearly 72,000 additional to become leaders in the changing FROM HUMBOLDT students since 2010. workforce, making the CSU a vital TO SAN DIEGO LOS ANGELES SAN BERNARDINO QUALITY economic engine for California. SAN LUIS OBISPO 1 IN 10 The CSU prepares students for success EAST CA EMPLOYEES through leading-edge programs, IS A CSU GRADUATE BAY STANISLAUSMARITIME superior teaching and scholarly activity. THE CSU SAN FRESNO CAMPUSES AND 8 OFF-CAMPUS CENTERS MARCOS High-quality academic programs • Is the nation’s largest four-year public SAN FRANCISCO reflect California’s current and future university system, with 23 campuses and 23 SONOMA SAN JOSÉ workforce demands in emerging eight off-campus centers. 52,163 FACULTY & STAFF fields such as cybersecurity, software • Educates approximately 484,300 students engineering, sustainable business and and employs more than 52,000 faculty 484,297 STUDENTS environmental technology. and staff. BAKERSFIELD CHANNEL ISLANDSMONTEREY BAY SUCCESS • Features more than 3.4 million living alumni. 3.4 MILLION ALUMNI DOMINGUEZ HILLS The CSU drives California’s economy FULLERTON with nearly 120,000 undergraduate and graduate students earning degrees each LONG POMONA BEACH NORTHRIDGE year and enhances the social fabric of the NEARLY 120,000 state and nation through the contributions CHICO of its students, faculty, staff and more than GRADUATES ANNUALLY 3.4 million alumni. 2 3 MASTER PLAN FOR HIGHER EDUCATION PREPARING CALIFORNIA’S WORKFORCE The CSU system was created in 1960 under the California The CSU plays a critical role in providing future leaders with Master Plan for Higher Education. The CSU draws its students the skills and knowledge they’ll need to thrive in the workforce from the top third of the state’s high school graduates and and help drive California’s economy. With nearly 120,000 annual is California’s primary undergraduate teaching institution. graduates, the CSU is the state’s greatest producer of bachelor’s 150,000 JOBS Continuing to expand its educational scope and help meet degrees and drives California’s economy in agriculture, information SUSTAINED BY THE CSU California’s workforce demands for skilled professionals, the technology, business, hospitality, life sciences, healthcare, public IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA CSU offers independent doctor of education, doctor of nursing administration, education, media and entertainment. practice and doctor of physical therapy programs at numerous campuses. The doctor of philosophy is also offered through • For every $1 the state invests in the CSU, the CSU returns $5.43 a joint partnership with other public and private universities ONE IN TEN • The CSU sustains more than 150,000 jobs in the state EMPLOYEES IN CALIFORNIA in California. • CSU-related expenditures create more than $17 billion in IS A CSU GRADUATE INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE economic activity The CSU strives to create a welcoming environment for all • One in 10 employees in California is a CSU graduate NEARLY HALF members of the campus communities. This commitment to • The CSU awards nearly half of the state’s baccalaureates OF THE STATE'S BACHELOR'S “Inclusive Excellence” is manifested in students who make up DEGREES ARE AWARDED BY THE CSU the most ethnically, economically and academically diverse The CSU reaches out to California’s growing underserved student body in the nation, reaching higher levels of success communities, offering affordable opportunities to pursue a college than ever as completion rates continue to reach all-time degree, enabling students from diverse backgrounds to succeed. highs. The university continues to invest in strategies to close OVER $17 BILLION More than one-third of CSU students are first-generation college IN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IS CREATED achievement and opportunity gaps for underserved and low- students and the CSU provides more than half of all undergraduate BY CSU-RELATED EXPENDITURES income students. The CSU is an engine for social mobility as degrees earned by California’s Latino, African American and Native those students earn high quality educations that propel them American students. Twenty-one of 23 CSUs are currently recognized into higher economic strata. by the Department of Education as Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), colleges and universities with a Latino student enrollment of at least 25 percent. 4 5 DEGREES CONFERRED 2016–17 Graduation Initiative 2025 aims to GRADUATION Bachelor’s Degrees 98,771 82.8% increase graduation rates for all CSU Master’s Degrees 19,963 16.7% students while eliminating opportunity INITIATIVE 2025 Doctoral Degrees 540 0.5% and achievement gaps. Through this Total 119,274 100% initiative the CSU will ensure that Master’s Doctoral Degrees Degrees all students have the opportunity to graduate in a timely manner according to their personal goals, positively impacting their future and producing 119,274 the graduates needed to power Bachelor’s California and the nation. Degrees SYSTEMWIDE ENROLLMENT Since its launch in 2016, the initiative has already seen FALL 2012–17 success in bringing 2- and 4-year graduation rates for transfer students and 4- and 6-year graduation rates for first-time 2012 436,560 freshmen to all-time highs. In 2016–17, the CSU graduated 2013 446,530 7,000 additional students above the previous year, resulting in 2014 460,200 nearly 99,000 undergraduate degrees conferred. 2015 474,571 2016 478,638 2017 484,297 6 7 STUDENTS FALL 2017 ENROLLMENT BY CAMPUS BAKERSFIELD LOS ANGELES SAN JOSÉ 9,863 28,253 33,409 CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME ACADEMY SAN LUIS OBISPO 7,053 1,050 22,188 CHICO MONTEREY BAY SAN MARCOS 17,789 7,131 13,893 DOMINGUEZ HILLS NORTHRIDGE SONOMA 15,179 39,816 9,223 EAST BAY POMONA STANISLAUS 15,435 25,894 10,003 FRESNO SACRAMENTO INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS 25,168 30,661 509 FULLERTON SAN BERNARDINO CALSTATETEACH 40,439 20,461 1,033 HUMBOLDT SAN DIEGO 8,347 34,828 TOTAL LONG BEACH SAN FRANCISCO 484,297 37,065 29,607 8 9 FALL 2017 ENROLLMENT TOTAL 484,297 CSU students largely come from California and mostly remain in the state after BY GRADE Freshman 18.9% 91,567 graduation, applying the skills and knowledge they have learned to help California’s Sophomore 12% 58,248 economy thrive. Junior 24.4% 118,262 Senior 33.4% 161,699 Postbaccalaureate 2.6% 12,563 Graduate 8.7% 41,958 OF ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS CAME MORE THAN HALF BY AGE 95% FROM CALIFORNIA OF CSU STUDENTS ARE 17 and under 1.6% 7,597 STUDENTS OF COLOR 18–24 73.8% 357,573 25–29 14.7% 71,299 OF FIRST-TIME 30–34 4.7% 22,581 FRESHMEN CAME FROM 35–59 5% 24,183 ONE-THIRD Over 59 0.2% 1,064 88% CALIFORNIA PUBLIC OF UNDERGRADUATES ARE THE HIGH SCHOOLS FIRST IN THEIR FAMILIES TO BY ETHNICITY ATTEND COLLEGE African American 4.1% 19,810 OF NEW American Indian 0.2% 1,188 UNDERGRADUATE Asian/Pacific Islander 16% 77,646 Hispanic/Latino 40% 194,237 93% TRANSFERS CAME 49 PERCENT White 23.6% 114,029 FROM CALIFORNIA OF UNDERGRADUATES ARE Other/Unknown 4.8% 22,954 COMMUNITY COLLEGES RECIPIENTS OF A PELL GRANT Two or More Races 4.7% 22,524 Nonresident Alien 6.6% 31,909 BY GENDER Men 43.5% 210,764 10 Women 56.5% 273,533 11 ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS APPLYING Freshman Students Students planning First-time freshman applicants must meet the standards in each to enter the of the following areas: CSU can apply through the online • Complete specific high school coursework. application tool, Cal State Apply, at • Achieve suitable grades in specified courses and tests. GRADUATE STUDIES CALSTATE.EDU/APPLY. • Graduate from high school. Due to the large number of applicants, some CSU campuses have higher Transfer and Graduate Students standards (supplementary admission 54,521 The majority of transfer students enter as upper-division transfers criteria) for particular majors or for POST BACCALAUREATE/GRADUATE and must complete at least 60 semester or 90 quarter units before students who live outside the local campus STUDENTS ENROLLED IN FALL 2017 transferring. Students who have earned an Associate Degree for area. Campuses utilize local admission Transfer will be admitted to the CSU with junior status. guarantee policies for students who graduate or transfer from high schools and To apply for admissions to graduate or postbaccalaureate studies, community colleges that are historically 19,963 a student must: MASTER’S DEGREES WERE served by a CSU campus in that region. • Earn a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution AWARDED IN 2016–17 with at least a 2.5 grade point average. • Be in good academic standing, while satisfactorily meeting the professional, personal, scholastic and other standards for 2,122 graduate study.