<p>"Cal Poly just one program?? Engineering? Architecture? Business? "</p>
<p>Indeed. Cal Poly has so many good programs I'm not sure which programs s/he was referring to.</p>
<p>how is cal poly a good in business? no one tihnks calpoly what a good business school. what proof do u have that cal poly is good in engineering. maybe compare to other Cal states itsgood.</p>
<p>USNews gives cal poly an enigineering peer asessment score of 3.9. This is higher that any UC except for UCB. The next best are UCLA and UCSD at 3.7.</p>
<p>Hundreds of great companies recruit for business here. You should ask them about cp's business reputation.</p>
<p>Cal Poly also has a strong science program. Here's a list of professional schools that has admitted cal poly student for the last 10 years or so.</p>
<p>Finally, Cal Poly's arch prohram is top notch. It has been ranked between #2 and #4 the last few years.</p>
<p>This is why I think Cal Poly is a good school overall and does not just have "one program."</p>
<p>is cal poly architecture better than UC Berkeley or USC? what rank is the calpoly mba program or is it in a special ranking for non-phd schools with mba programs? most people think cal poly is in pomona. which calpoly is better, and why?</p>
<p>most people absolutely do not think cal poly is in pomona. most intelligent people in california are aware that there are two campuses, one of whom is Giants who has personal experience on the northern campus at SLO. that's the senior campus, founded in 1901, with pomona formed during the depression years. across the board SLO is regarded by more academics as the best university in the CSU system with san diego, pomona, long beach and sometimes one or two others in the next rung. but as noted above many CSUs have distinguished programs. pomona, for example, has the best hospitality management program in the west, and some contend the best in the nation.</p>
<p>as for comparing anything there are data points one might use for example to place poly arch at a level near the very best in the west, particularly at the undergraduate level. CSU programs have a more difficult time competing with UC programs at the graduate levels due to the higher support granted by the state to the research university system.</p>
<p>Cal Poly arch is on par with that of Harvard, lol, I see Cal Poly has the same dilemma as SDSU has, with misinformed people. Since we have newly formed reputations as being good schools, by most educated individuals in the working force of California. We are both growing dramatically (statistically via our student body and funding) and surpassing many UC's.</p>
<p>Dr J, I found that SDSU had about 200 million dollars of funds given to the school as gifts, do you know how much UCSB received last year via gifts?</p>
<p>don't know about last year specifically but do know that the university is near the revised goal of raising one half billion bucks. that will pay for a few things.</p>
<p>When I went to Poly 3 years ago, at orientation they said that the architecture program was number one in the country. This includes ALL colleges. I think it was tied w/ MIT or Harvard as someone stated earlier. Also they said that "Cal Poly is the fourth most difficult public university to get into". I assume Cal, UCLA, and maybe UVA or UNC are the three ahead of it. This includes the agriculture admissions, which is not as competitive. There is no doubt that both the bay area and southern california businesses view Cal Poly as a hotbed for engineering, arch and even business. The problem I had (and about half the other people I know did) with Cal Poly is that you can't easily change your major. The average time it takes to switch majors is 3 quarters, which adds a year to the already average of over 5 years it takes to graduate. I was in EE, a major that has about a 50 percent drop out rate.</p>
<p>Cal Poly is NOT the 4th most difficult public school to get into in the nation. UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD, UVA, UNC, Michigan, William and Mary, U of Wisconsin-Madison. And thats just to name a few.</p>
<p>that depends upon what you mean by hard to get into to. selectivity? admit percentages? test scores? GPA? you need common criteria against which to measure. i have seen data that show poly to be a tougher admit than the midtier UCs (though not obviously the top tier or charlottesville), and suspect giants or kyle may have the facts on that one.</p>
<p>According to many architecture magazines, I believe one, designintelligence even states that cal poly is the best in architecture among all universities in the nation.</p>
<p>As for selectivity criteria, I find it hilarious your post most of the UCs. How about you look at the calpoly viewbook, <a href="http://www.calpoly.edu%5B/url%5D">www.calpoly.edu</a>. Now before you look at the statistics lets me inform you how selection goes in cal poly.</p>
<p>Just like in the UC's how some majors such as Art,separated from the other majors and applicants are reviewed up against other Art majors rather than a University as a whole, is similar to Cal Poly's way of admission throughout the whole university.</p>
<p>Thos applying for Electrical Engineering are only reviewed against others in electrical engineering, those in enginlish only with others in english. Since the highlight of Cal Poly is engineering and architecture, it is best to see the amount of applicants and amount of selected in those colleges and make an assumption of Cal Poly's difficulty of admissions. In other words, Architecture and engineering are very selective compared to the other colleges in Cal Poly.</p>
<p>To avoid applicants from applying to a easier college and transferring to their preffered college, majors have to be declared when applying, and switching colleges is nearly impossible.</p>
<p>With that in mind you will find Cal Poly more selective than all the UCs except UCLA, UCSD, and Berkeley.</p>
<p>As far as cal poly being the 4th most selective public, I believe that was in reference to acceptance rates. I think the 3 lower were UCB, UCLA, and William and Mary. That was indeed 3 years ago, so I'm not sure if it's true now. </p>
<p>Cal Poly's avg gpa and SAT are held down by the college of ag. Their averages are around 3.5 and 1150, where the rest of the colleges are at around a 3.9 and 1260. </p>
<p>It is somewhat difficult to switch majors here, but I do know more than a few who have done so. Actually, the majority of my close friends have switched. I think the infamy of switching majors here is blown out of proportion.</p>
<p>its funny how this thread turned from a ucsb and sdsu dicussion into a cal poly one.</p>
<p>i heard that it was very hard to switch majors at cal poly from my friends who are students there. i'm actually thinking about switching my major so we'll see how that goes</p>
<p>haha, yeah it evolved because a lot of us have ties to Cal Poly. I had to bring up Poly when y'all were calling me mr. community college :(.</p>
<p>poly frequently gets thrown into the mix whenever any CSU is discussed. it's the gold standard, so much so that other states are now trying to establish polytechnics. there are only six in the entire nation, and two are in california.</p>