About the Institution

California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) is located in San Luis Obispo on California’s Central Coast, about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cal Poly was founded in 1901 and has been consistently named the best public, master’s-level university in the West by U.S. News & World Report since the late 1990s. It is part of the 23-campus California State University system and is well-known for its learn-by-doing pedagogy.