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Stats
Student body: Roughly 17,580 (Fall 2004)
Faculty (including part-time):
About 1,182 (Fall 2004)
Student-faculty ratio: 20 to 1
Staff (approx., including part-time,
hourly and management): State, 1,215; foundation, 232; ASI, 65
Campus size:
Main Campus:
1,321acres, of which 155 are the "campus core"
San Luis Creek Ranches, adjacent to campus: 1,614 acres
Western Ranches,
not contiguous to campus: 3,043 acres
Swanton Pacific Ranch, Santa Cruz County: 3,200 acres
Valencia Property, Santa
Cruz County: 500 acres
Total: 9,678 acres.
Cal Poly is the second largest land-holding university in California,
second only to UC Berkeley, and one of the largest land-holding universities in the nation. Cal Poly, however, uses all of
its land holdings in active support of the education of its students.
Budget:
2004-2005 State General Fund budget: $172,159,204
2004-2005 State Budget Funding for:
College of Agriculture: $13,687,513
College of Architecture & Env Design $8,625,337
Orfalea College of Business $8,036,126
College of Engineering $16,200,045
College of Liberal Arts $21,506,635
College of Science & Mathematics $18,278,577
College of Education $2,458,599
Library Services $5,159,590
Information
Technology Services $11,451,499
Academics
Programs offered: 64 bachelor's, 23 master's, one doctorate of education in association with
UC Santa Barbara, 63 minors, 8 credentials
Total bachelor's
degrees (1942-2003): 105,078
Total master's degrees (1951-2003): 9,468
Terms: Four 11-week quarters per year
Accredited/recognized
programs: 24
Fee average for California residents: Colleges
of Agriculture, Architecture and Environmental Design, Business, Engineering, Science and Mathematics - $1,171; College of
Liberal Arts - $1,093.50; University Center for Teacher Education - $963.50.
Out-of-state tuition: $188 per quarter unit
Room & Board: $2,658
per quarter (19 meals per week)
Financial aid awarded 2001-2002: $46,471,930 to 9,282 students
History
Founded as: Vocational high school
Founding legislation signed: March 8,
1901
First day of class: Oct. 1, 1903
First bachelor's degree: May 28,1942
Names:
1901 -37: California Polytechnic
School
1937-47: California State Polytechnic School
1947-72: California State Polytechnic College
1972- : California
Polytechnic State University
Student Body
Fall 2004
Men: 9,043
Women: 6,784
Fall 2003:
Ethnic minorities: 26%
Average age: 21.48
Geographic
Origin of Students:
California resident status: 94%
Central Coast (San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Monterey counties):
20%
San Francisco Bay Area: 24%
Los Angeles area: 15%
Central Valley: 12%
Outside California (USA): 6%
International
Students: 1%
Applications: 27,063 (Fall 2004) Enrolled: 3,836 (Fall 2004)
New freshmen: 22,551 applied;
2,930 accepted students enrolled (Fall 2004)
New transfers: 4,512 applied; 906 accepted students enrolled (Fall 2004)
Most-competitive majors for undergraduate applicants, including first-time freshmen
and lower- and
upper-division transfers (majors accepting fewer than 30%): psychology, art and design, theatre arts, liberal
studies, music, political science, kinesiology, architecture, business administration, physical science, and child development
(2003)
Total Undergraduate Applicants: 27,062 (Fall 2004), the seventh
straight record undergraduate application pool
for Cal Poly
Admitted students enrolled: 3,704 (Fall 2004)
Admitted first-time freshmen students' average high school
GPA: 3.77 (Fall 2004)
Admitted first-time freshmen students' average SAT I score: 1212 (Fall 2004)
Admitted transfer
students' average GPA: 3.26 (Fall 2004)
Enrollment by College, Fall 2004
| College |
Undergrad |
Grad |
Total |
| Agriculture |
3,568 |
136 |
3,704 |
| Architecture & Environmental Design |
1,878 |
54 |
1,932 |
| Business |
2,077 |
80 |
2157 |
| Education |
N/A |
228 |
228 |
| Engineering |
4,678 |
266 |
4,944 |
| Liberal Arts |
2,708 |
88 |
2,796 |
| Science & Mathematics |
1,631 |
70 |
1,701 |
| Others* |
115 |
23 |
146 |
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| All Colleges |
16,637 |
945 |
17,582 |
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