typical university extension courses as they offer degree programs and students enjoy the same status as other CSU students. Notably, the California State University, Channel Islands is the newest addition, having transitioned from an off-campus branch of CSU Northridge. The following is a list of schools and their off-campus branches:
=== Laboratories ===
Research facilities owned and operated by units of the CSU:
Desert Studies Center
Research consortium and field site managed by California State University, Fullerton
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Independent degree-granting campus managed by San Jose State University
Oceanographic laboratory located in the Monterey Bay area
Southern California Marine Institute
Oceanographic laboratory in the Los Angeles Basin
Telonicher Marine Laboratory at Cal Poly Humboldt in Trinidad, CA
Marine research laboratory on the North California coast
Home of the research vessel RV Coral Sea
=== Observatories ===
Established in 1968, the Mount Laguna Observatory, managed …
