California State University Rankings 2025

The California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA), which was founded in 1947, is situated in the city's downtown area. The college of arts and letters, the college of business and economics, the charter college of education, the college of engineering, computer science, and technology, the Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services, the college of natural and social sciences; as well as the college of professional and global education are the eight major academic colleges. One of the greatest business degree programmes in the nation, the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center, the first Charter College of Education in the United States, and several other top departments and centers are located on the main hilltop campus's 175 acres. Owing to their academic performance the University ranks- #21 in Regional Universities West; #9 in Top Public Schools and #23 in best Undergraduate Teaching- according to US NEWS; ranked #1401 in QS World University Rankings 2024 and #201- 250 in US UNI (universities) according to (Top Universities); 401-500th in US College Rankings 2024 (THE Time’s Higher Education). 

California State University World Rankings

Subject-Wise Ranking

The best performance of the university is seen in its Undergraduate Engineering programs as per US NEWS; where it ranks #29 in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs of which the following are the subject ranking in Engineering

• #8 in Civil Engineering
• #9 in Computer Engineering
• #11 in Electrical / Electronic / Communications
• #133 in Nursing

Employability Ranking

According to the CWUR rankings of 2023- 2024, California State University has an Employability Rank of 595 along with an overall score of 67.3 Moreover, the national rank is 294; implying an average metric in graduate employability ranking.