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    Student Origins
    Question: Where are Cal Poly students coming from?
    Answer: Everywhere!
    Our students come from across the world and bring their diverse perspectives to add to the Cal Poly community. However, from wherever our students originate, their paths merge to graduating from one of the finest universities on the west coast.
    Campus
    The main campus’ 4,000 acres holds a mixture of historical testaments to the past and monuments of efficient design for the future. Explore our campus through a 360 degree perspective.
    History
    Beginning with an idea in the mid-19th century to today, Cal Poly’s legacy is filled with thousands of successful alumni. Watch our retelling of Cal Poly’s history from its important origins to today. Read more here.
    Downtown
    The hub of the city where students study, hang out, bike, run and come to appreciate a big-city feel in a small-town setting. SLO is big city that curls around two mountaintops, but you can cross downtown from one end to the other in 10 minutes. Come for a visit and see for yourself!
    Applying
    Applying to Cal Poly is a simple process that involves deciding on a major and submitting an application by the appropriate deadline. However, gaining admission to Cal Poly is competitive. All applicants are comprehensively reviewed as we look for students who have strong academic records and are active in and outside the classroom. Watch a short video discussing this topic.
    Beaches
    We do not have to exaggerate the campus' promixity to the Pacific Ocean. What most people don't always stop and realize is the impact that promixity can have on your college experience. Flying down the freeway and hitting the beach in 10 minutes makes it easy to study or hang out there. Any visit to Cal Poly has to include a stop at one of four beaches along the coastline!
    Location
    Much is written about Cal Poly’s amazing location and a mild climate that maintains all year. But words pale in comparison to an actual visit to Cal Poly and California’s Central Coast. With its small-town feel in an urban setting, the city provides the perfect backdrop to a classic college-town experience. Visit us soon and experience the SLO life for yourself.
    Neighborhoods
    SLO neighborhoods offer a combo of students and city residents that make for good mix! The city residents teach students to respect the community while students keep our city young and vibrant. Anyone driving through SLO will see a mix of living environments!
    Surroundings
    San Luis Obispo sits in a valley and curls around two mountaintops and stretches throughout the valley. When you visit Cal Poly, visit SLO! Because where you live...helps to make your college experience the most amazing time of your life!
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    Financial Aid
    Each year, Cal Poly's Financial Aid Office helps hundreds of students realize their goal of attending our university. For vital information about Financial Aid offered to students at Cal Poly, explore financialaid.calpoly.edu.
    ASI
    ASI provides student-focused programs and manages student facilities that supplement the university's academic environment and positively impacts the lives of students. The programs, services and facilities are operated with the goal of enrichment, inclusivity and development of student potential. Consistent with the core value of student success, ASI offers leadership development through student government, student-led programming, student employment and student involvement within a broad array of program and service offerings.
    Housing
    University Housing works to provide an environment that offers more to students than just lodging. Students who live on campus, are part of a community from day one. Explore all that University Housing offers our students through their site: housing.calpoly.edu or visit the campus and take a tour, offered Monday through Friday.
    Athletics
    An exciting part of the Cal Poly Experience, our intercollegiate sports programs offers students a variety of games, matches, meets and other events to show their campus spirit. Our Cal Poly athletes work hard, both on and off the field.
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    Orientation
    Student Life and Leadership makes our students' transition to college life as smooth as possible with programs led by student volunteers. Our Week of Welcome program is nationally recognized and often used as a model for universities to follow when orienting new students to a university.
    ROTC
    Cal Poly's ROTC program offers more than classes in Military Science, it opens a door to another path our students can consider after graduation. Participants of the program are eligible for different scholarships and training. But the opportunities that await graduates are filled with success as the cadets we interviewed talk about.
    Study Abroad
    The Cal Poly International Center offers Cal Poly students the opportunity explore beyond Cal Poly's borders. Their programs take our students around the world and allow them to experience other cultures, languages and worlds. As a Cal Poly student, studying abroad can enhance the Cal Poly Experience by taking it to the next level.
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    Cal Poly is a nationally ranked, four-year, comprehensive public university located in San Luis Obispo, halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles on California's Central Coast. It is a distinctive learning community offering academically focused students a hands-on educational experience that prepares them for today's scientific and technical world.

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Cal Poly's Agribusiness Department is well known for producing future agribusiness leaders. Our graduates have a global perspective and are exposed to the world's dynamic environmental, political, economic and social environments. Upon graduation, students have the interpersonal, communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and applied business skills that are required for successful careers with regional, national and international agribusiness industries and the firms and organizations that support those industries.
If you are excited about agriculture and want to let others know about it, Agricultural Education is right for you. Our graduates come from a wide variety of backgrounds and share a passion for communication and teaching. Some go on to teach students about the application of science, management, leadership and technology of food, fiber and natural resource systems. Others enter the workplace, sought after by the agriculture industry who look to our graduates to tell the story of agriculture and to help shape public opinion about California’s most important industry. Our mission is to contribute to the improvement of agricultural instruction in the state of California and prepare agricultural communicators who will promote agriculture and serve the needs of the agriculture industry. We are proud of our long history of leadership and service to the college, the university, the agriculture industry and the agricultural education profession in California.
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With the Agricultural Systems Management (ASM) major, students combine hands-on experience in agricultural technology with practical training in the business and management aspects of agriculture within a curriculum that is recognized by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. In addition to the hands-on courses in the department, students may take enough business and management classes to earn a minor in Agribusiness.
The Agricultural and Environmental Plant Sciences major at Cal Poly offers you an opportunity not just to learn, but learn-by-doing. Prepare to get your hands dirty, work outdoors and in our labs and greenhouses, and enjoy some of the most beautiful California sunshine in the state.
Cal Poly's Animal Science Department boasts one of the most comprehensive "hands-on, learn by doing" programs in the United States, as students work with several species of animals on a regular basis. Extensive facilities provide the resources for students to learn the principles required for success in areas such as veterinary medicine, animal biotechnology, animal facility management, animal nutrition and animal food manufacturing. Additionally, the department engages with current animal industry through faculty involvement research and educational programs.
The BRAE Department's BioResource and Agricultural Engineering (BRAE) major offers answers for students who want to be problem solvers. Today's high-tech agricultural industries are looking for graduates who can engineer solutions to the problems of resources and systems as well as for those who can manage advanced technologies.
The Cal Poly Dairy Science Department is one of the best in the nation. Housing its own dairy herd and also home to the Dairy Products Technology Center and the Cal Poly Creamery. Through our hands on education philosophy, Cal Poly is making waves and setting new standards of education throughout the country. Staying true to Cal Poly's motto of "Learn by Doing", the Dairy Science Department gives students the chance to gain hands-on experience in many areas of production, processing, and products technology, including research and development at the graduate level, while teaching the history, science, theories and recent developments in the classroom. With a solid group of young people and one of the most knowledgeable faculty teams around, the Dairy Science Department is a wonderful place for anyone to obtain a bachelor of science or master's degree.
The B.S. degree in Environmental Earth Sciences provides a strong foundation for understanding the natural environment and improving the utilization and stewardship of land, water, and atmospheric resources. The program emphasizes a wide range of disciplines in natural resources and in the cultures that use and modify them. The core of the earth sciences curriculum is composed of geology, geography, and soil science, and is strengthened by a diverse array of related technical specialties or concentrations.
The Environmental Management & Protection program is an undergraduate, interdisciplinary course of study integrating the biophysical and social/economical/political sciences. The curriculum emphasizes management and protection of ecosystem structures and processes that sustain uses of environmental resources. The major will
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