(04-15-2017 06:48 PM)Sactowndog Wrote:  About 10 years ago a bill was introduced in the state legislature to allow Cal States to offer Doctoral degrees in applied sciences. So Cal State Bakersfield could offer Doctoral Degrees in Petrochemical Engineering or Long Beach State in Aeronautical Engineering or Fresno State in viticulture. The bill would have passed except for a massive effort by the UC System to block it.

Which is correct. The UC system is probably the top public university research institution in the world.

If you want to be in Calif and at a public research university, then go to UC.

CSU is just for getting an undergrad degree with no research focus.