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Curiously
Refreshing Stats
Superb faculty!
Cal
State L.A.’s nationally and internationally
recognized faculty boasts the 2005 CASE/Carnegie Professor of the Year, 12 recipients
of the California State University system’s
prestigious Trustees’ Outstanding Professor
Award (more than at any other CSU campus), a
California Professor of the Year, and two
educators who have received the Presidential
Award for Excellence in Math, Science and
Engineering Mentoring in a White House ceremony.
It’s
a matter of degrees:
Our degrees are hot
-in
2008, 2,681 undergraduate and 1,032 graduate degrees were earned. Programs with the greatest number of degrees granted? Bachelor's:
Business Administration-Accounting, Social Work,
Criminal Justice,
Psychology, and Child Development. Master’s: Counseling,
Educational Administration,
Social
Work, Curriculum and Instruction, and Special
Education.
Teaching teachers:
Cal
State L.A.’s
Charter
College of Education, the nation's first such school of higher education, leads the way in school reform. It is one of the largest preparers of credentialed teachers in California, and the state's #1 preparer of bilingual teachers. It offers two joint doctorate degrees in education.
They're tops:
U.S. News & World Report 2009 again ranked our graduate Nursing program and undergraduate Engineering and Business programs among the best in the nation at primarily undergraduate institutions.
El primero: Cal State L.A. established the nation’s first Chicano Studies department in 1968. Today, CSULA confers more bachelor's degrees to Latino students in all disciplines combined than any other California university.
The
young and the gifted:
The
University’s Early Entrance Program -
the only one of its kind in the nation -
involves gifted students, sometimes as young as
11 years old, directly in college life.
CSULA
students soar:
Being among the first to make flight possible via fuel cells!
English master's:
Cal State L.A. has one of the largest M.A. English
programs in the state, and also a Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.
Cool architecture, hot jazz and more:
The Luckman Fine Arts Complex - the striking northern gateway to campus - is home to the critically-acclaimed Luckman Jazz Orchestra.
The Luckman offers world-class performing arts programs.
An apex:
A Barnes and Noble-operated bookstore, a food court and major conference center
are at the heart of the campus in the Golden Eagle building, connected by
a bridge to a new University-Student Union.
Riding
the rails:
Cal
State L.A.
is Southern California’s only campus
Metrolink station,
second only to Union Station as L.A.’s
busiest.
It takes know-how:
The 1997 champion Solar Eagle III was the
first solar and only Hot Wheels (r) reproduction
of a student-built vehicle. In 2002, NASA
awarded the College of Engineering, Computer
Science, and Technology a $6 million, five-year
grant to establish a Structure, Propulsion,
Aerospace and Control Engineering (SPACE)
Center.
It’s
easy being green:
The Biological Sciences' greenhouses contain more than 140 types
of plants. And, the Center for Environmental Analysis (CEA-CREST), funded by the National Science Foundation, is the first of its kind on the West Coast. And,
La Kretz Hall, the first wing of the
Wallis Annenberg Integrated Sciences
Complex, was dedicated in spring 2009.
Go
for the gold:
Cal
State L.A. boasts
25
Olympian
alums -1 Bronze, 8 Silver and 10 Gold Medalists! And, an alumna modeled for the bronze by the L.A. Coliseum.
Net
gain:
Tennis
great, alumna
Billie
Jean King
(att. ’61-’64), received an honorary
doctorate at Cal State L.A.’s 50th
Commencement ceremony, and hosts an annual
tennis benefit for athletics
scholarships.
Cal
State L.A. centurion:
In
1973, the University honored
alumnus and novelist Joseph Wambaugh ’60,
’68 M.A., with its first Outstanding
Alumnus Award.
The real CSI:
CSULA is home to one of the West's most renowned criminalistics programs, based in the state-of-the-art
Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center.
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2009-2010
Factoids
Office of Outreach and Recruitment:
California
State University, Los Angeles
Student Affairs 101
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032-8530
(323) 343-2752
Apply online at: www.csumentor.edu
www.calstatela.edu
Campus
Tours:
Available
Monday-Friday. Call (323) 343-3175 for details,
or e-mail tours@cslanet.calstatela.edu
Term
calendar:
Quarter
system (ten weeks of instruction, one week of
exams).
Faculty:
569
(full-time)
615 (part-time)
Student
Population:
Total - 20,743
38%
male / 62% female
Undergraduates-15,588
11,691 (full-time)
3,897 (part-time)
4%
live on campus
First-time freshmen: 1,942
New transfers: 1,805
Graduate Students: 5,155
QUICK
FACTS
Sports
(Division II):
Baseball
(men)
Basketball (men and women)
Cross Country (women)
Soccer (men and women)
Tennis (women)
Track and Field (men and women)
Volleyball (women)
Technology for the 21st century:
Our technologically advanced campus houses
more than 35 networked classrooms, six large
open-access computer labs, two training
labs, Wi-Fi access, and many other “smart” classrooms.
Access 24/7 is easy, whether on or off campus.
Renovations of more than $40 million have provided
some of the most advanced engineering and technology labs in the nation,
and the Music Building offers state-of-the-art digital studio modalities.
Housing:
Our campus residence community offers 192
fully furnished apartments for up to
1,000 residents. Recreational facilities are
nearby. For rates, call Student Housing, (323)
343-4800.
Support
for Success:
The
Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) provides
special services for educationally or
economically disadvantaged students. A Tutorial Center
and Writing Center supports academic success.
Application
fee (subject to change):
$55. Fee waivers are available for qualified
applicants.
Yearly
Costs:
CSU/campus fees:
$ 3,332
(Post-baccalaureate
pays an additional $226 registration fee.)
For
current fee information, go to www.calstatela.edu/univ/sfinserv/feepay.htm
Financial
Aid:
•
Average financial aid award package:
$4,886
•
Merit- and need-based scholarships
available.
Super
alums:
Since 1948, more
than 210,000 graduates have gone forth to make a
difference in every type of endeavor.
From 1995 to 2004, 98 alumni earned doctoral degrees. Of these, 40 were either African American or Latino, a phenomenally high percentage, showing the University’s strength in diversity.
The California State University-Working for California:
• According to the U.S. Census Bureau, those with a bachelor's degree will earn nearly twice as much over a lifetime then as a high school school graduate.
• More educated workers mean higher tax revenues, greater productivity, a stronger high-tech workforce, and decreased reliance on government financial support.
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