With a commitment to "learning by doing" and a campus filled with impressive and innovative facilities, Cal Poly gives its 18,000 students a comprehensive hands-on education in everything from animal husbandry to music to aerospace engineering.
A nationally ranked, four-year public university, Cal Poly is in San Luis Obispo, a city of about 44,000 on California's central coast. The 9,600-acre campus encompasses impressive hills, quiet valleys, and gorgeous ocean views as well as state-of-the art classrooms, laboratories, and student farms.
The university was founded in 1901 by historian and newspaper editor Myron Angel, who dreamt of a school that would "teach the hand as well as the head, so that no young man or young woman will be sent off in the world to earn their living as poorly equipped for the task as I when I landed in San Francisco in 1849."
Over the years the school has grown into one of the largest universities in the country, but it still holds true to its original mandate: "to furnish to young people of both sexes mental and manual training in the arts and sciences, including agriculture, mechanics, engineering, business methods, domestic economy, and such other branches as will fit the student for non-professional walks of life."
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