<p>I was recently admitted to CSU - Long Beach, a mid tier state school witha 3.56 GPA. I want to continue my education beyond just a bachelors but I have been reading various articles stating that getting into a reputable GRAD program from a state school is almost impossible.</p>
<p>These articles rightfully proclaim that CSU are teacher schools and UC are research schools. Should I skip out on going to Long Beach State this semester and apply for UC's in next fall (which I am sure I will be admitted into at least one). I am not looking to go to some Top 10 grad school, and I am not even sure exactly what grad program I want to go for (Major is Business Economics, rather go for a Masters a in a field besides Econ)</p>
<p>I just feel a bit lost, and that going to a CSU may very well kill my chances at even having the opportunity to advance my education past a simple 4 year degree. Any help will be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>My father has a BA in anthropology from CSU Northridge and a Ph.D in paleontology from UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>California’s graduate schools would be awful empty if CSU graduates (a significant majority of the state’s baccalaureate holders) couldn’t get admitted.</p>
<p>Well that is realy great news. If I maintain a 4.0 @ LBSU, get high GREs, get a year of research and take the Math route at a CC (over a 2 year span), then I can be competitive for a decent grad program?</p>
<p>Why would you want to take the Math route at a CC? There is nothing you can learn in Math at a CC that you can not learn at a CSU and a lot of things you can not learn. CC Math courses are mainly remedial high school classes and they they can only offer College courses that are the basic lower division Math classes and CC classes are considered to be inferior in rigor to CSU classes.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what “take the Math route at a CC” means. Taking just a few math courses at a community college is not going to prepare you for a math graduate program.</p>
<p>Honestly I dont have the link, it was more of a blog post than a reputable article but it still freaked me out a bit.</p>
<p>And I am not looking for a math graduate program. I don’t really know what type of grad program I want yet.</p>
<p>How much math is required as a pre-req for post graduate studies? I’;m certain it depends on the subject…but as a baseline? A few years of Calculus?</p>
<p>There is no “baseline.” It is entirely dependent on the course of study, and fields that have nothing to do with math don’t care about someone’s ability to do higher math. You don’t need even pre-calc to write a historiography. The social sciences tend toward stats classes, because you’re going to tend to end up working with quantitative research. SPSS will be your frenemy.</p>
<p>I have never taken so much as pre-calc in my entire life. I took Intro to Statistics to fulfill my undergraduate math requirement. The only math class I had to take in my MS program was… grad-level statistics/data analysis.</p>
<p>if you are unsure you should go to a CC. and really its what you make of it, my older sister went to SDSU and then CSUN for a MS and got her license for MFT. Yes CSU have credential programs that a lot of the UCs dont, but UCs do have teaching tracks. Id say worry more about the program you want, and how you want to get there, not a reputation. And I do not think CC is inferior to csus uc. in fact i cherish my education at a CC now that i am transferring ive realized how lucky i was to have classes with less than 40 students, compared to the equivalents at the UC i am going to where they range all the way up to 500!!</p>
<p>Oh man, where are people getting this. This is golden. I was accepted into more than a few top 20 (and one top 10) program, and decided on a very good and well known program. All from a paltry “state school”. </p>
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<p>All that means is that the instructors at one are focused on teaching (shocking) while the instructors at the other are researchers first and teachers second. I have had colleagues come from the UC system and say how the CSU was an absolute breath of fresh air in terms of faculty interaction.</p>
<p>In any case to put in perspective, that I know of, the last places folks from our department have gone off to: Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Emory. Says nothing about where they actually were accepted to.</p>