California State University, Long Beach

California State University, Long Beach opened in 1949 as Los Angeles-Orange County State College and became a campus of the California State University system on a large site in Long Beach. It is a comprehensive public university serving Los Angeles and Orange counties, with a park-like campus of more than 300 acres near the Pacific coast.

Academic divisions include the colleges of liberal arts, business, education, engineering, health and human services, the arts, and natural sciences. Graduate work is established in business, education, engineering, public health, social work and studio arts, including MFA programs. Campus facilities such as the Carpenter Performing Arts Center support performance and professional training.

Enrollment is about 38,000 students, with several thousand at graduate level. The campus draws mainly from Southern California; international students come from many countries. Faculty, including lecturers, number in the low thousands. Alumni include film director Steven Spielberg, comedian Steve Martin and beach volleyball Olympian Misty May-Treanor.

Graduate study is mainly coursework master's degrees on a semester calendar, with some professional doctorates in fields such as education, nursing and physical therapy. State-funded assistantships are limited relative to the size of the graduate body. Many students commute from across the Los Angeles basin while using the Long Beach campus as their academic base.

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