What is California State University?
[[File:California State University logo.svg|thumb|right|250px|]] [[File:Csuofficeofthechancellor.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Office of the CSU Chancellor in [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]].]] The '''California State University''' ('''CSU''') is a [[public university]] system established in 1857 in [[California]]. It is one of three public higher [[education]] systems in the state, the other two being the [[University of California]] system and the California Community College system. The California State University system headquarters are in [[Long Beach, California]].<ref>[http://www.calstate.edu/ Home Page]. ''California State University''. Retrieved on December 6, 2008. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217181452/http://www.calstate.edu/ |date=2012-02-17 }}</ref> The CSU system is composed of 23 campuses and has over 417,000 students supported by 47,000 faculties and staff.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.calstate.edu/ | title = The California State University homepage | access-date = 2008-08-21 | date = 2006-02-13 | publisher = The California State University | archive-url = https://www.webcitation.org/65VoWUNAZ?url=http://www.calstate.edu/ | archive-date = 2012-02-17 | url-status = live }}</ref> It is the largest senior system of higher education in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.calstate.ca.gov/PA/2006Facts/index.shtml | title = CSU Facts 2006 | access-date = 2006-07-30 | date = 2006-06-29 | publisher = The California State University }}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> CSU prepares about 60 percent of the [[teacher]]s in the state, 40 percent of the [[engineering]] graduates, and more graduates in [[business]], [[agriculture]], communication studies, [[health]], [[education]] and [[public administration]] than all other California [[universities]] and colleges combined. Altogether, about half the [[bachelor]]'s degrees and a third of the master's degrees awarded annually in California are from the CSU. Since 1961