100 Campus Center
Seaside, CA 93955-8001

California State University, Monterey Bay is a comprehensive California State University that values service through high quality education. The Monterey Bay campus serves the diverse population of California, especially the working class and historically undereducated and low-income populations. It offers classes to its students all year long.

California State University Monterey Bay develops a culture of innovation in its overall conceptual design and organization, and utilizes new and varied pedagogical and instructional approaches including distance learning. Institutional programs at California State University Monterey Bay value and cultivate creative and productive talents of students, faculty, and staff, and seek ways to contribute to the economy of the state, the wellbeing of communities, and the quality of life and development of its students, faculty, and service areas.

The programs of instruction at California State University Monterey Bay strive for distinction, building on regional assets in developing specialty clusters in such areas as: the sciences (marine, atmospheric, and environmental); visual and performing arts and related humanities; languages, cultures, and international studies; education; business; studies of human behavior, information, and communication, within broad curricular areas; and professional study.

Quick Facts:

To build a multicultural learning community founded on academic excellence from which all partners in the educational process emerge prepared to contribute productively, responsibly, and ethically to California and the global community.

Ideally situated between the Salinas Valley and Monterey Bay, California State University Monterey Bay's 1,387-acre campus brings together promising students and accomplished faculty in the heart of a premiere California location.

California State University Monterey Bay has educated and served the diverse population of California and its immediate Tri-County region since being established in 1994 on part of the former Fort Ord Army base.

California State University Monterey Bay particularly emphasizes access to quality higher education for traditionally underserved and low-income populations.

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