California State University & Colleges
The Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960 brought together the individual California State Colleges as a system. The system became the California State University and Colleges In 1972. Later on, it was renamed the California State University in 1982.
Today, the campuses of the California State Colleges include comprehensive and polytechnic universities and, since July 1995, the California Maritime Academy, a specialized campus.
California State Colleges is a leader in high-quality, affordable higher education. With 23 campuses, almost 450,000 students, and 47,000 faculty and staff, it is the largest, most diverse, and one of the most affordable university systems in the country. The system awards about half of the bachelor’s degrees and a third of the master’s degrees granted in California.
The California State University has made top-quality higher education more easily available for a wider number of students. The California State University has also focused more efforts into providing comprehensive higher education. California State Colleges offers more than one thousand and eight hundred degree programs in bachelor and master degree levels in three hundred and fifty-seven subject areas. Most of these programs are provided for students so they can finish all their requirements. These are divided into part-time, late afternoon and evening study times.
A limited number of doctoral degrees are also offered jointly with the University of California and with private institutions in California. In 2005, California State Colleges was authorized to independently offer Doctor of Education degree programs for educational administrators. The tuition & fees for the various schools in the system vary. Several of the schools offer online learning opportunities such as online classes and distance learning degree programs.
