<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I'm an international student currently in a CC,and i hope to take a transfer to CSUF after my CC years for completing a major in physics.I can't pay for colleges like the UCs and USC,so i thought that i should set them aside for grad school.Will it be possible for me to get into the physics grad program of USC after getting a major in physics from CSUF ?I'm willing to work like hell on it and get good scores,do undergrad research,and acquire recommendations.Can it be a possibility ?</p>
<p>goblu</p>
<p>sure, if your grades support that.</p>
<p>The CSUs are intended to grant four year college degrees to students who are then expected to enter the work force to fill positions requiring a BA or BS. The UCs are intended to be research institutions that anticipate a significant number of their graduates will go on to graduate school while the CSUs are intended to prepare their graduates for immediate entry into the work force and the faculty at CSUs are expected to focus on teaching rather than research. Graduates of CSUs can and do go to graduate school but they have to understand that they will be doing so from a system that does not view providing its students significant research opportunities and getting graduates into top graduate schools as significant parts of its mission.</p>
<p>Many of the CSUs are adding Masters Degree programs to their offerings, probably in response to more employers wanting employees to have a Masters degree for positions that Bachelor’s degrees used to be considered sufficient preparation but now is not. For example my son is an undergraduate Geology major at CSU Sacramento which now offers an MS in Geology in addition to the BS. In recent years most employers of geologists, particularly the major oil companies, have come to see the MS rather than a BS as the minimum qualification for entry level positions as staff geologists.</p>
<p>CSUs are prohibited from offering PhD programs in any discipline. Graduates of CSUs who want to apply to a PhD program would probably face steeper odds of acceptance than graduates of other 4 year colleges that have.</p>
<p>On a positive note, employers looking to hire graduates with a bachelor’s degree to fill positions in some fields such as engineering are said to often prefer CSU graduates over those from some of the UCs since they are percieved as having had a more hands on training experience at CSUs and require less on the job training.</p>