California Polytechnic State University—San Luis Obispo is a public institution that was founded in 1901. In the 2026 edition of Best Colleges, California Polytechnic State University—San Luis Obispo ...

The waitlists vary significantly in size from year to year, as does the number of students admitted from the list.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cal Poly saw the highest enrollment in what appears to be university history this year, with more than 23,000 students flocking to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cal Poly is eliminating its swim and dive teams amid budget cuts announced by the university Friday. The university previously ...

A flurry of Cal Poly students buzzed around the university’s latest entry in the annual Rose Parade as the final touches for the framework of the float were welded, sanded and tested. For 75 years, a ...

The California State University system added a third polytechnic university Wednesday when the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to turn Humboldt State University into a polytechnic institution. The ...

Forbes Magazine selected Cal Poly as the best public master’s university in California when the publication released its list of America’s Top Colleges in 2018 on Tuesday. Joe Johnston ...

There was a bit of attention in IHE recently to the idea of a “Polytechnic University” as an element in rethinking institutional strategic position – and not all of it was positive. The transformation ...

The following is a press release from the Cal Poly Humboldt University Police: On July 4, 2026, at approximately 12:38 a.m., an officer from the University Police Department was patrolling the area of ...