How Good Of A School Is Long Beach State?
How good of a school is it? How is it compared to San Diego State or Arizona State or even the UC schools.
If i graduate as a history major, will i be able to find a job as a history teacher? (many of my teachers were Long Beach graduates).
The Thinker on Thu, 19th Nov 2009 4:22 pm
CSU Long Beach is one of the better state universities. It is right up there with San Diego State, San Jose State, and San Francisco State.
However, none of the state universities are particularly prestigious compared to the University of California campuses. In the whole pecking order of academia, even a rather mediocre UC (like Irvine or Riverside) is better than a CSU.
But, as others have pointed out, it doesn’t really matter unless you want to become a professor or professional researcher. Career success is not determined by which school you went to (an abstraction). It is determined by your actions on the job (a reality). Many extremely wealthy and powerful people in California did their undergraduate work at a CSU, not a UC.
SFdude on Thu, 19th Nov 2009 5:01 pm
All the state schools are very good at producing teaches. No they are not as good as any of the UCs or even ASU for that matter, however they are better than needed. To be honest, unless you plan on teaching in a elite private school or at college, it doesn’t really matter where you get your degree from.
Just a friend. on Thu, 19th Nov 2009 5:16 pm
Hope that this site will help you some!http://www.csulb.edu/
♥Tami♥ on Thu, 19th Nov 2009 5:16 pm
Long Beach State has an excellent teahcer credential program. The key is to find a school with good contacts in the local districts, and LB State definitely has those. There is a great demand for grads.
Sure, it doesn’t have the academic prestige of a UC system, but the program at Beach is really good at what it does: Produce qualified teachers that are employable immediately.
Don’t know much about ASU, but I can’t see how it can be much superior, considering the access CSULB has to so many districts in the area.