California State University, East Bay

California State University, East Bay was founded in 1957 as the State College for Alameda County, later operated as California State College at Hayward, and took its present name in 2005. It is a campus of the California State University system, with its main hillside campus in Hayward and additional centers in Concord and Oakland.

The university is organized into colleges of business and economics; education and allied studies; letters, arts and social sciences; science; and health. Graduate study is concentrated in business, education, counseling, social work, healthcare administration and related professional fields. It is a teaching-oriented public campus with applied master's programs rather than a large research-doctoral profile.

Enrollment is about 13,000 students, including a few thousand graduate students. The student body is among the more ethnically diverse in the CSU system and is largely commuter, drawn from the East Bay. International students are a smaller share. Faculty number in the hundreds of tenured and lecturer staff.

Master's degrees are coursework-based, often scheduled for working adults, on a semester calendar. Doctoral provision is limited. Assistantships exist in some departments, but most graduate students are self-supporting or employer-sponsored. Students typically commute to the Hayward campus overlooking San Francisco Bay, with some courses at the Concord and Oakland sites.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, California State University, East Bay lists 1 master's program, in environmental design.