San Jose State University

San Jose State University is a public university in San Jose, California, founded in 1857 as a normal school and the oldest public institution of higher education in the state. It sits in downtown San Jose in Silicon Valley and belongs to the California State University system. Its defining fact is a metropolitan, professionally oriented campus tied to the regional technology industry.

The Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering, the Lucas College and Graduate School of Business, and colleges of science, humanities, education, health, and social sciences organize teaching. Master's students concentrate in electrical, computer, software, and aerospace engineering, computer science, and business. Project work often connects to Bay Area firms.

Enrollment is about 33,000 students, with a large master's population relative to many other California State University campuses. International students, especially in engineering, make up a sizable share. Alumni include author Amy Tan and former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta.

Graduate study is dominated by professional master's degrees with coursework, projects, and internships. Funding for master's students is often tied to assistantships, employer tuition support, or self-funding rather than a uniform doctoral stipend culture. The calendar is semesters. Students live in and around downtown San Jose, with access to Silicon Valley employers and a campus that functions as a commuter and project-based environment.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, San Jose State University lists 5 graduate programs across 4 subjects, all of them master's programs, with the widest choice in computer science, data science & business analytics and electrical engineering.