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About San José State |
SJSU and certainly San José are known in the U.S., so I offer this brief overview of the city, university and campus for international visitors to my web pages.
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The City of San José was founded in 1777, and was briefly California’s first capital in 1849.
Today it is the largest city (by both area and population) in Northern California. With about 925,000 residents spread across 170 square miles, is the third most populous city in California, behind Los Angeles and San Diego but ahead of San Francisco. Via automobile, it is about 80 km southeast of San Francisco, and is slightly further away from Oakland and Berkeley.
The city is the only major city and the county seat of Santa Clara County, a county which comprises about two-thirds of the geographical area people normally call “Silicon Valley.” As such, San José bills itself as “The Capital of Silicon Valley.” Adobe, BEA, Cadence, Cisco, eBay and KLA-Tencor are major companies headquarted in San José; other Santa Clara County high-tech headquarters can be found in Cupertino (Apple), Santa Clara (Intel), Sunnyvale (AMD, Yahoo), Mountain View (Google, Sun) and Palo Alto (Agilent, Hewlett-Packard).
San José has its own international airport (SJC), which is sometimes confused with the airport of San José, Costa Rica (SJO).
The first public university on the West Coast, the school was founded in 1857 in San Francicso, and offiically became the “California Normal School” in 1862. It moved to San José in 1871, and in 1935 was renamed “San José State College.” In 1974, the current name was adopted.
In 1961, the state government combined San José State College and other colleges to form what became the California State University system. Today, the CSU system has about 414,000 students and 44,000 employees. Among the system’s 2 million alumni are 10% of the state’s workforce and 60% of its K-12 teachers.
While most of the 23 CSU campuses carry the CSU name (e.g. CSU Long Beach, CSU Fullerton), the campuses also include San Diego State, San Francisco State, the California Maritime Academy and California Polytechnic Universities at Pomona and San Luis Obispo. San José State is one of the seven large campuses which have more than 25,000 students; recent SJSU enrollment has fluctuated between 26,000 and 30,000 students.
The College of Business is closely linked to Silicon Valley, with more COB alumni working for Silicon Valley firms than those from any other business school in the U.S. (The SJSU College of Engineering plays the same role in supplying engineers to Valley firms).
Under our dean, Dr. David Conrath, the college has adopted three focal areas:
The largest department in the college is the Department of Organization & Management, whose faculty teach and do research in organizational behavior, human resources., strategy, international business and entrepreneurship. The department has an unusally strong international orientation, with a sizable fraction of the non-IB faculty having lived or worked overseas.
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SJSU’s downtown San José campus is located between 4th on the west, 10th on the east, San Fernando on the north and San Salvador on the south. The College of Business is located at 10th and San Antonio.
In this image of the northeastern 6 blocks of the 18 block campus, the two COB buildings (Business Tower and Boccardo Business Education Center) are located along the east (right) side.
Non-taxpayer supported programs are conducted off campus at the COB’s Rose Orchard facility, located 7.5 miles to the northwest.
Image by Digital Globe via Google.