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What are the advantages of San Diego State University?
San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university located in California. It is the oldest and largest institution of higher education in San Diego County. Founded in 1897, formerly known as San Diego Normal School (CSU), it is the third oldest school in California State University system and is also considered as the flagship school of this system. The main campus of San Diego State University is located in San Diego, and there are 65,438+0 small sub-campuses located in Kalleck I, California, which are called mperial Valley Campus.

San Diego State University currently has 25,870 students. There are 189 bachelor's degree programs, 9/kloc-0 master's degree programs and 22 doctoral degree programs. Among them, there is a doctor of Education (ed. D), doctor of physical therapy (Ed. S), JD (doctor of law), doctor of Audiology (au. Cooperate with Claremont Graduate University, University of California, Davis, University of California, Riverside, University of California, San Diego and University of California, Santa Barbara to carry out doctoral and doctoral programs. San Diego State University offers the largest number of doctoral programs and enrolls the largest number of doctoral students in California State University system-2013 with 534 students-and it is also the only school in this university system listed as a national university by USNEWS.

Carnegie Classification of Higher Education Institutions classifies San Diego State University as an active research university (RU/H). In the 2009-20 10 academic year, its R&D fund was1500,000 US dollars, of which 26 million US dollars came from the National Institutes of Health. San Diego State University has the second largest number of Fulbright scholars in California, second only to the University of California at Berkeley. Since 2005, it has trained 40 Fulbright scholars.

60% of the graduates of San Diego State University choose to stay in San Diego, which is the most important contributor to intellectual talents in the region. San Diego State University is also one of the top ten most diverse schools in the United States-in terms of the number and categories of ethnic minority students and the number of bachelor's degrees awarded to ethnic minority students.

The strongest majors in San Diego State University are education and public health. As far as other majors are concerned, her ten colleges are relatively strong, and they are one of the few colleges in the United States that offer such majors-such as Accounting College, Nutrition College, Journalism College and Hotel Management College.