California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Profileuniversity.com - California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo or also known as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo or Cal Poly is a public university located in San Luis Obispo, California, United States, exactly halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. University which was founded in 1901 originally as a vocational high school. Currently, California Polytechnic State University is one of the largest states in the nation Campuses.

Through six colleges held today, including the College of Science and Mathematics, Orfalea College of Business, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, and the College of Liberal Arts, Cal Poly offers more than 147 bachelor's degrees. In the fall of 2012, the engineering is the most popular and selective majors on campus, Followed by agriculture, food and environment sciences.

California Polytechnic State University stands on an area of ​​1321 hectares and still has an additional 8.357 acres of rolling campus in the north dedicated to student farming, architecture and other outdoor experimental laboratory studies. Cal Poly has also continued to experience a variety of campus construction projects as well as other recent innovations, including freshmen dormitory housing complex, which is projected to be completed in the fall of 2018. In addition, the academic center and library building project to begin in 2015.

The Poly "P", the icon that is built by students of the university, is one of the oldest hillside initials in the West and the leading symbol of pride for members of the university. Decorating the P to spell out messages, even for marriage proposals, is a long-standing tradition campus. The P was altered to the GOP in 1964, to POT in the 1970s and even Springsteen in the 1980s.

Of athletic activities, Cal Poly has several sports clubs consisting of a team of men and women's team that competed at the NCAA Division I athletics competition.


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