San Diego State University

San Diego State University is a public university in San Diego, California, founded in 1897 as a normal school and later incorporated into the California State University system. It grew from a teachers college on a mesa above Mission Valley into a large research university with a main campus in the College Area and a smaller Imperial Valley campus. Its mission combines teacher education, applied research, and access for California students.

Colleges include sciences, engineering, business, health and human services, education, professional studies and fine arts, and arts and letters. Graduate students work with centers in public health, computational science, and the coastal and border region. Joint doctoral programs with the University of California San Diego are a distinctive path in several science and professional fields.

Enrollment is about 37,000 students, including more than 6,000 graduate students. International students come from many countries and form a modest share of the total. Faculty number more than 1,500. Alumni include astronaut Ellen Ochoa and actor Annette Bening.

Graduate study includes master's degrees and a smaller set of doctorates, including joint Ph.D.s, with a mix of coursework and thesis or dissertation supervision. Semesters run in fall and spring, with summer sessions. Students live around the College Area campus and use San Diego as a large coastal city with internships in government, biotechnology, and related sectors.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, San Diego State University lists 5 graduate programs across 5 subjects: 1 master's program and 4 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in earth & environmental sciences, electrical engineering and health & medical sciences.