Imagine going to college and living on the beach in California, with all your amigos, near the beautiful blue ocean. It’s sunny every day and the education is top grade. San Diego State University, the fifth largest university in California, has a lot to offer its 34,000 students. Located only nine miles from the Pacific Ocean beaches in beautiful San Diego, culturally rich SDSU promotes academic excellence and leadership.

Campus life
There’s plenty of entertainment right on campus, such as concerts and sporting events. Surviving without a car is no problem. Buses make it easy to get around town to shopping, jobs, the beach, and the Mexican border. You get a discount bus pass with your tuition. Because the border with Mexico is so close, the city has the perfect mix of the best of American and Mexican cultures. Within a few miles of the college you have tasty authentic taquerías, great amusement parks like Sea World, and beautiful beaches. If you don’t have a computer, the school has several computer labs that are open often so you can get your work done. There is also a huge recreation center with a pool, a workout room, and a fine basketball court. It is said sometimes that people don’t just go to the gym to work out. Athletic chicas and chavos everywhere make the gym the place to be after class.

What to study?
One of the best things about college is you get to choose what you study. SDSU offers 81 different subjects you can study called majors. Some areas students can study include business, computer science, dance, journalism, politics, nursing, and even hospitality and tourism. That’s when you learn to be the boss of a big Las Vegas hotel in charge of thousands of employees and keeping a casino running 24 hours a day! When deciding on a major always think about what interests you most, because you’d probably enjoy studying it and eventually working at a job in that area. 

What's fun to do?
For cheap recreation, students head to the beach. At the Mission Bay Aquatic Center, just a short drive or bus ride from campus, students can take lessons to learn how to windsurf, kayak, wakeboard, sail, surf, and much more. Mexico is a mere 25 minutes away. San Diego also has professional sports teams like the Chargers and the Padres, excellent food, and a cool downtown called Gastown that has warehouse restaurants and hip coffee shops.

Who’s there?