![]() SDSU broke ground for a new 35,000-seat stadium in August 2020. On May 29, 2020, the city council gave conceptual approval to sell 135 acres, including the stadium, to San Diego State for $88 million. Negotiations began for SDSU to purchase the property from the city of San Diego. The proposal, called SDSU West, was put to city voters in November 2017 where it won approval by 54% of those voting, easily beating out a competing commercial proposal called SoccerCity. Īfter the departure of the San Diego Chargers for Los Angeles in 2017, SDSU endeavored to gain control of the city stadium (then called Qualcomm Stadium) and surrounding city property, which is just across the freeway from the main campus and where SDSU football games are played. In April 2012, the XIV Dalai Lama spoke at SDSU's Viejas Arena as part of his "Compassion Without Borders" tour. Public address to San Diego State College, May 29, 1964, San Diego, California. ![]() We must live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools. In 1964, this event was registered as California Historical Landmark #798. Kennedy was given an honorary doctorate degree in law at the ceremony, making SDSC the first California State College to award an honorary doctorate. Kennedy, then the President of the United States, gave the graduation commencement address at the then-San Diego State College on June 6, 1963. Finally in 1972, San Diego State College became California State University, San Diego, and in 1974 San Diego State University (SDSU). In 1960, San Diego State College became a part of the California State Colleges system, now known as The California State University. In 1935, the school expanded its offerings beyond teacher education and became San Diego State College. In 1931 it moved to its current location on Montezuma Mesa at what was then the eastern edge of San Diego. The first graduating class of the opening year of the newly constructed San Diego Normal School.īy the 1930s the school had outgrown its original campus. San Diego State is an Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) and is eligible to be designated as an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander serving institution (AANAPISI). San Diego State University is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. ![]() Committed to serving the diverse San Diego region, SDSU has one of the ten most ethnically and racially diverse student bodies among universities nationwide, and is also one of the top ten for the number of bachelor's degrees conferred upon minority students. ![]() The university generates over $2.4 billion annually for the San Diego economy, while 60 percent of SDSU graduates remain in San Diego, making SDSU a primary educator of the region's work force. Since 2005, the university has produced over 65 Fulbright student scholars. SDSU sponsors the second-highest number of Fulbright Scholars in the State of California, just behind UC Berkeley. As reported by the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index released by the Academic Analytics organization of Stony Brook, New York, SDSU had the highest research output of any small research university in the United States in 20. In the 2015–16 fiscal year, the university obtained $130 million in public and private funding-a total of 707 awards-up from $120.6 million the previous fiscal year. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". In Fall 2022, SDSU hit an all time high enrollment record student body of nearly 37,000 and an alumni base of more than 300,000. Founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, it is the third-oldest university and southernmost in the 23-member California State University (CSU) system. ![]() San Diego State University ( SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California. ![]()
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