California State University

The California State University is a public university system in California. With 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers enrolling 485,550 students with 55,909 faculty and staff, CSU is the largest public university system in the United States. The CSU system was created in 1960 under the California Master Plan for Higher Education and it is a direct descendant of the California State Normal Schools chartered in 1857. With over 110,000 graduates annually, the CSU is the country’s greatest producer of bachelor’s degrees. The university system collectively sustains more than 209,000 jobs within the state. The CSU system is one of the top U.S. producers of graduates who move on to earn their PhD degrees in a related field. Since 1961, over four million alumni have received their bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degrees from the CSU system. CSU offers more than 1,800 degree programs in some 240 subject areas.