<p>I am living in a small city about 15 minutes away from CSU Long Beach, and about 45 minutes away from Cal Poly Pomona. I have been accepted to both schools with a business administration major. I am still trying to get financial aid from both schools but as of right now it looks like I will be using my parents retirement money to pay for college. If I go to Pomona I would be living in their housing dorms paying an extra 5 grand i don't have. If I go to Long Beach i will probably commute and live at home with my parents. So i want to know what college is best for a business major and which college you would choose to go to if you were in my situation. It would also be helpful if you told me what you know about these schools. </p>
<p>It seems that going to CSULB is the way to go. There aren't a whole lot of people dorming at Cal Poly Pomona. Also I'm not sure about this but isn't tuition cheaper at Long Beach? CSULB is considered one of the top CSU's so its a great choice. Just below Cal Poly SLO and SDSU.</p>
<p>CSULB has such a great Business Admin. program! You can commute easily and don't have to waste your parent's money for dorms. (well I'm may be slightly biased because both my parents came from CSULB Bussiness Admin.)</p>
<p>Plus, like 50 of my friends are going there... haha.</p>
<p>Go to Long Beach. The campus is very nice and the business program is solid. Cal Poly Pomona has pretty lousy business program. It's very disorganized and a lot of the good professors have left. The school cares far more about Engineering and the Sciences. The only negative about Long Beach is that it's mainly a commuter school, but that would be a problem for you since you will be commuter yourself.</p>
<p>there is no comparison between the two. long beach is a university on the move upward, ever since president maxson took over many years ago. the only issue is that beach did not fill its dean search so the interim remains.</p>
<p>by comparison, cal poly pomona is on a nosedive. four deans have resigned and now the provost has resigned and no replacement has been named. so many business faculty and staff, now a whopping 68, have resigned or retired in the past two years that the school is in danger of losing its accreditation.</p>
<p>i would place pomona as among the worst business programs in the entire CSU now, and just a few years ago it was among the top eight. save the five grand for a good MBA program.</p>
<p>I've noticed 4 CSU's in particular are on the rise: Cal Poly SLO, SDSU, San Jose State, and Long Beach. It just seems to me that their reputations are on the rise and seem to be doing better in terms of freshmen selection and fundraising. I'd definitely recommend Long Beach in this case.</p>
<p>but i also recommend working part time to pay for the tuition instead of using your parents retirement money to fund your education. That is a big no no. Doesnt matter the amount. You can easily earn 4k a year to pay for both tuition and books working 10 hours a week on campus.</p>
<p>long beach. i'd rather study near the coast than out in pomona! plus, CSULB is a good school, and it's located in a nice area. I live in long beach too :P</p>
<p>since i know faculty at almost every CSU here is what i'm hearing from around the state:</p>
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<li><p>STILL ON TOP: San Diego State. The largest and best business program in the system. While facilities may not be the best of all (though still good) the faculty surely is.</p></li>
<li><p>MOVING TOWARD THE PEAK: Cal State Fullerton, San Jose State and Long Beach State. Fullerton has a huge edge here as it is completing an $80 million building that is world class. It will open fall 2008. SDSU had best watch out then. SJSU and Beach are a notch behind as both just have lost their deans and Beach was unable to fill its search. So rank them 3/4. San Jose dumped its business comm program that dragged that college down, good move.</p></li>
<li><p>VERY SOLID CITIZENS: SLO, CSUSM, SF State, Chico. SLO is the best of this group, but since the program is capped it cannot compete with the big boys above and must remain a niche player. San Marcos is new but coming on strong and San Fran has a solid dean and faculty in a great location.</p></li>
<li><p>MAKING A MOVE: Sonoma and Dominguez Hills. Sonoma just gained accreditation and has a great provost and excellent dean, and DH is on the verge of getting it and owns the online game at the graduate level. Though smaller they are programs to watch. DH includes public policy so could be a niche player.</p></li>
<li><p>STILL CREDIBLE: Fresno, Northridge, Bakersfield, San Bernardino, Sac. All have had problems but still are accredited (though Northridge was in trouble for awhile) and decent programs. CSUSB's dean was offered the Beach job but turned it down, offer too low.</p></li>
<li><p>GOING INTO THE TANK (AVOID AT ALL COSTS): Pomona and CSULA. Both have HUGE personnel AND facilities problems. The dean at pomona has wrecked a top notch program, leaving most faculty to retire early or leaving for other jobs in just two years as posted prior, and now the provost has cleared town too. And at Cal State LA the dean just walked out in midyear. Reports on <a href="http://www.studentsreview.com%5B/url%5D">www.studentsreview.com</a> show that sometimes there are not even enough chairs in rooms at pomona, while at LA the faculty is simply unavailable and demoralized. Driving another fifteen minutes in any direction would be a smart move.</p></li>
<li><p>THE OTHERS: Stanislaus, EBay, CI, HSU and MBay are smaller but still credible. Maritime has an obvious bent to it so i would avoid unless you like the seaborne stuff.</p></li>
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<p>giants, a VERY good friend of mine was dean of business at your alma mater. though i've never taught there the real issue at SLO is that president baker wants the university to be known as a tech school first. that's why the cap on business, to put university resources into sciences, engineering, arch, etc. otherwise, SLO would be right up there with san diego state and fullerton. at pomona (poly south) there never was a cap and as a result some large and distinctive programs emerged, such as EBZ, EB, and IB. but tragically the new dean has wrecked about everything unique and sent one of the cal state's finest programs into the bottom tier in just two years.</p>
<p>Yeah, I definitely got that feeling while I was there. Many of the new buildings being built are tech-related (engineering, arch, etc.). However, we are breaking ground on a new $120M science building next year. Very exciting stuff. </p>
<p>Although the Poly business program seemed to be doing rather well while I was there, it was probably more due to Paul Orfalea than Warren Baker. That building he donated is quite inspiring.</p>