Report (2025)
Regional Universities West - 1st
Most Innovative Schools - 1st
Best Undergraduate Teaching - 1st
Top Public Schools - 1st
Best Colleges for Veterans - 1st
Best Value Schools - 7th
Engineering Programs - 8th
Civil - 1st
Computer - 1st
Electrical / Electronic / Communications - 2nd
Mechanical - 2nd
PayScale Best Value Colleges Ranked by ROI (2025) - 36th out of 1,978
Money Best Colleges for Your Money (2025) - 5 out of 5 star - Awarded America's Best Colleges.
DesignIntelligence: America's Best Architecture & Design Schools:
Undergraduate Architecture Programs - 3rd in the nation.
Landscape Architecture - 6th in the nation, 1st in the western region.
== Student life ==
=== Student characteristics ===
=== Residence halls ===
Cal Poly's on-campus student housing, totaling 6,239 spaces, is the largest student housing program in the CSU system. In Fall 2015, 35.9% of undergraduates lived in 28 dorms, and 98.7% of first-time freshmen lived on campus. Additionally, 28.7% of sophomores lived on campus.
There …
