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San José State University, also known as San Jose State and SJSU, is the first university in what became the California State University system.
Campus
The main 154 acre (62 hectare) campus of San José St. is a rectangle in downtown San Jose, California, bordered by San Fernando Street (north), Fourth Street (west), San Salvador Street (south), and Tenth Street (east). The athletic fields, additional student housing and parking are located about 1.5 miles south on Seventh Street at the South Campus.
San Jose State maintains a facility at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport as part of the Aviation Department, and manages the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, California, on the Monterey Bay, a cooperative research facility of seven CSU campuses.
Organization
The university has eight colleges:
Applied Sciences & Arts
Business
Education
Engineering
Humanities & the Arts
Science
Social Sciences
Social Work
as well as schools of Journalism, Library & Information Science and Music & Dance.
Students
The campus has approximately 30,000 students. It is one of the most ethnically diverse in the state, with large Asian, Filipino and Latino enrollments.
The engineering, science and business schools claim to have more graduates in Silicon Valley than any other school in the U.S.
Faculty
San Jose State has about 1,600 faculty memebers, 87 percent of which hold doctorate degrees.
Research collections located at SJSU include the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies and the Martha H. Cox Center for Steinbeck Research.
SJSU research partnerships include the SJSU Metropolitan Technology Center at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, and the Cisco Networking Laboratory, funded by Cisco Systems.
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