California State University, San Bernardino is a state-funded university in San Bernardino, California, part of the California State University System. The university was founded in 1965. Enrollment annually tops 16,000 and is on pace to reach more than 20,000 by 2010. CSUSB's extension campus in Palm Desert is notable for having been built entirely with private funds.
Cal State San Bernardino opened in the year 1965 with a few hundred students and 30 faculty members. According to former San Bernardino mayor Bob Holcomb, the city getting the CSU campus was a concrete outcome of a successful fight with the Metropolitan Water District (MWD). As he said in a 2002 interview,
"...As it got closer and closer to select a site for the college, the city wasn't even going to... try. ...I went to the Chamber of Commerce and asked them... for a committee and let's get a college in San Bernardino... They still said we don't have the water, you know, and this was after the city had voted down MWD... I said, 'You have plenty of water.' No, so anyway, my job, I formed my own committee to bring the state college. My primary job was to convince the state that we had the water and get the water problem off the agenda so that it wouldn't shoot us down like everyone thought it would... We... got the three or four large land owners controlled all the land out there... to agree on a very reasonable price for their land... if the state selected San Bernardino. Got the city to lay out the road system and to engineer the sewer system and engineer the water system and then so all this was- and then they did all the testing that... would be normally done by the state. The board of trustees was meeting, I think was up in San Jose to, and that would be one of the items on the agenda was to select a site. So, I went up to the meeting. ...And I said, 'One thing, we have plenty of water. We can give you all the water you need.' I... showed them how the water thing was okay... And so the rest of it was slam dunk... The president of the state- the state college boards was an architect by the name of, I think, Charles Leckmen... He says, ...there's no competition. San Bernardino is so far a head of all the other sites that, that we don't have to worry about how much it's going to cost, we don't have to worry about where the roads are going to go, and so they voted that day to put it here- San Bernardino."
Faculty have published more than 1,700 titles in the course of the university's history.
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| Percent of Students International: | 3% |
| On-Campus Housing Available: | Yes |
| Percent of Students Living On-Campus: | 10% |
| Freshman Students Required to Live on Campus: | No |
| Member of: | NAA, NCAA |
| Sports Include: |
Basketball (California Collegiate Athletic Assoc) Baseball (California Collegiate Athletic Assoc) Track (California Collegiate Athletic Assoc) |
| Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) | In-State | Out-of-State | |
Published Tuition and Fees: |
$ 3,092 | $ 13,262 | |
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 0 | $ 10,170 | |
Required Fees for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 3,092 | $ 3,092 | |
| Financial Aid | Avg. Amount Received | % of Students Receiving Aid | |
Federal Grants: |
$ 3,257 | 47% | |
State and Local Grants: |
$ 1,820 | 43% | |
Institutional Grants: |
$ 2,338 | 43% | |
Student Loans: |
$ 2,823 | 23% | |
Any Aid: |
64% |
| Acceptance Rate: | 63% (Selective) |
| Test Scores | |
| SAT Scores: | |
| % of Students Submitting SAT Scores: | 90% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Verbal: 380, Math: 400 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Verbal: 490, Math: 510 |
| ACT Scores: | |
| % of Students Submitting ACT Scores: | 16% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Composite: 16, Verbal: 14, Math: 16 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Composite: 20, Verbal: 20, Math: 20 |
| Application Fee: | $ 55.00 |
| Formal Demonstration of Competencies: | Not Required |
| High School Diploma or Equivalent: | Required |
| High School GPA: | Required |
| High School Rank: | Not Required |
| High School Record: | Not Required |
| Recommendations: | Not Required |
| TOEFL: | Required |
| Test Scores: | Required |
