| Are you planning to attend a California college?
Then, you have come to the right place! We have
carefully reviewed each of 4-year colleges and
universities in the state of California and the
following are the top-ranked public and private programs
listed in alphabetical order. You can keep reading to see best CA colleges. Please note that
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 The extraordinary array of 146 public-supported degree
granting institutions, with the University of California
at Berkeley (North) and UCLA (South) usually the top
ranked examples, and a similarly extensive group of
private-supported universities, with Stanford (North)
and Southern California (South) seen as the best
examples, have served both as facilitators and
generators of the California dream.
California is a state of superlatives. Some have come to
California for its special climate; it's one of the few
places in the world that enjoys the Mediterranean-type
weather. Especially in Southern California, the dry
warmth permits lightweight clothing and outdoor
recreation almost all the year round, and palm trees can
be seen as far north as the San Francisco Bay area.
Rainfall is primarily confined to the November to March
period.
According to
songaah.com,
California's superlatives have drawn others because of
its amazing geographic variety. The film industry,
originally centered in Hollywood (LA), was drawn by the
possiblity of representing most of the world's geography
without leaving the state. Geographically and
culturally, California can be viewed as three regions:
Southern from Santa Barbara to the Mexico border,
Northern from Monterey to San Francisco - and north to
Oregon - and Central to include the central shore to
Sierra Nevada, and the great central valley from
Bakersfield to Sacramento and Redding. These regions all
exhibit rather dramatic differences.
The North has jagged shorelines, more rain, and rugged
terrain, rushing rivers and many lakes. Here are the
great forests and sparse population north of the Bay
Area. North of Redding is the Shasta area of snow-capped
mountains, and even some glaciers and bald eagles, the
country's national bird. It's an area that we sometimes
call California's Shangri-La. Nearer the Bay Area is
Napa country, with its sophisticated restaurants and
numerous wineries. The Bay Area itself is home to more
than 6,000,000 people, whose diversity has expanded from
gold miners to computer programmers, who, coached by
numerous local universities including Stanford and
Berkeley, have created the entrepreneurial paradise
commonly called Silicon Valley, centering from San Jose
to the Golden Gate.
Southern California has a climate that exhibits sunshine
and ideal temperatures most of the year, and encourages
a recreation life-style that has brought many to
California. The Los Angeles (LA) area is home to the
entertainment industry, major technological and business
enterprises as well as land development, tourism, and
professional sports. Immediately south of LA is Orange
County, which is famous for its beaches, amusement parks
(the original Disneyland), residential developments, top
higher education institutions and a decidedly less urban
atmosphere than Los Angeles.
Within the northern sector of Orange County is North
Orange County, where two of the region's finest
community colleges are located. Cypress College is
highly respected for its programs in the health
sciences, automotive and transportation technology, and
the liberal arts. The college recently initiated an
innovative Geographic Information Systems curriculum
with grants from the National Science Foundation. It
also offers such specialized programs as aviation and
mortuary science. Fullerton College is the oldest
continuously-operating community college in California,
and it offers to its more than 19,000 students strong
programs in business, science and the fine arts -
particularly in music and theatre. Fullerton College is
one of the largest in the nation in transferring
students to the university. South of Orange County is
San Diego, which has a streetcar ride direct to the
Mexican border! San Diego is home to America's cup, has
a world-class zoo, and 90 museums - need we say more?
The Central region is dominated by the San Joaquin
Valley, an enormous 500 mile long example of rich,
irrigated farmland, with a north/south string of cities
in the forth, half, and one million population range. It
is the fastest growing region in California, as people
leave the more crowded shore cities. Central west is
Monterey/Carmel (very internationally oriented), Big Sur
( a northern Italy type of coastline), and Santa Cruz
with its boardwalk amusement park and university.
Further south on the coast, we find a castle (Hearst)
sitting on a hill overlooking the ocean, and further
inland a charming town (Solvang) straight out of
Denmark.
Central East is high Sierra country, with the gold
country towns along foothills and strung like earls on
north/south highway 49. Between Sierra and the sea are
lush fields of grapes, and a cornucopia of other fruits
and vegetables - the nation's breadbasket. Merced
County, centering the triangle including San Francisco,
Monterey and Yosemite, has the world's largest winery
(Gallo). But industry and cutting edge
telecommunications are moving into the farmlands; Merced
also prints 80% of all the telephone books, and several
national magazines, produces speedboats, etc, and has an
International Trade Development Center with a Free Trade
Zone.
The two-year colleges of California issue Associate
Degrees that are transferable to the more advanced
degree universities in the nation, and also provide
vocational certificate programs, such as ESL, often of
an intensive nature. The State University System
provides Bachelor's degrees (usually four years or so
after the Associate), and Master's Degrees (usually
requiring a fifth or sixth year). The University of
California issues Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate
degrees (the doctorate usually requiring two or more
post-master's work, plus an approved dissertation).
These university programs represent the combined
experience of California and the world, and have brought
California to the cutting edge of the world-wide
revolution in telecommunications. For beginning
university students, I recommend starting at the two
year colleges, since they are much less expensive, have
smaller classes taught by professors whose major
interest is teaching rather than research, and provide a
more flexible format for individual tutoring or
counseling, while determining what major is desired.
Fullerton and Merced have extensive international
outreach, eg Fullerton receives a select group from the
Beijing Institute of Management each year, and Merced
has sister college agreements with universities in
China, Japan, Vietnam and France, plus articulated
programs with the Monterey Institute of International
Studies.
California is an attitude as well as a place. It is
vibrant, entrepreneurial, diverse and intellectually
stimulating, because it's always on the doorstep of the
future. Everyone needs the California experience, just
as everyone needs the Paris experience - to have a
better sense of who you are and to touch base with your
feelings. Only when you experience another culture do
you better know your own culture.
Below we list all universities in the state of California. You can visit
AllCityPopulation for colleges in California by city.
Founded: 1929
Slogan: "Built by artists for artists"
Location: 79 New Montgomery, San Francisco, CA 94105
Tuition: $19,740 (2014)
Acceptance Rate: 100% (2015)
Total Enrollment: 11,071
Founded: 1969
Location: 10455 Pomerado Road, San Diego, CA 92131
Tuition: $16,800 (2015)
Acceptance Rate: 38.550003% (2014)
Total Enrollment: 3,871
Founded: 1947
Slogan: "Education demands innovation..."
Location: 15600 Mulholland Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90077
Tuition: $30,182 (2016)
Acceptance Rate: 58% (2015)
Address: 400 Corporate Pointe, Culver City, CA 90230
Phone: (310) 578-1080
Founded: 1977
Location: 602 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
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