1 Grand Avenue
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) is located in San Luis Obispo, a city of about 44,000 on California's central coast, midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The city and California university share a neighborly, small-campus, small-town feeling and one of the finest natural environments anywhere.

From Cal Poly's compact, 1321-acre main campus, you can take in sweeping views of the nearby peaks and valleys. To the north of the academic core is an additional 8,357 acres of rolling campus devoted to student farming, experimental architecture and other outdoor laboratory studies, making Cal Poly one of the largest campuses in the nation.

Cal Poly's facilities complement its reputation as one of the finest universities in the western region. Possibilities for recreation and other activities are limitless at this California University. Cal Poly students partake in music, dance, drama, films, fine arts, rodeo, radio, student government and many other opportunities to develop skills and interests.

Quick Facts:

Students live both on and off campus. California Polytechnic State University has more residence halls than any other CSU campus. They offer a variety of living arrangements for about 3,600 students.

California Polytechnic State University's spacious, modern library contains about 620,000 books and 107,000 bound periodicals, and an extensive government documents collection and other special collections.

Over 60 undergraduate majors are offered and nine are available within the CSU system only at Cal Poly, and another eight are offered only at one other CSU campus.

The student body at this California University is comprised of nearly 20,000 students taking classes in all different subjects.

Cal Poly is the second largest land-holding California University, 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.

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