California State University, Long Beach
public university in Long Beach, California, United States
California State University, Long Beach (Cal State Long Beach or CSULB), also known in athletics as Long Beach State University (LBSU), is a public research university in Long Beach, California, United States. The 322-acre campus is the second largest in the California State University system (CSU).
The university enrolls around 35,843 undergraduate students and 5,346 graduate students as of fall 2024. The graduate programs include master's degrees, credentials, post-baccalaureate certificates, and doctoral programs. CSULB is classified as an "R2: Doctoral Universities – High Research Activity". The university offers five doctoral programs: Educational Leadership- Community College Higher Ed Specialization or P-12 Specialization (Ed.D.), Engineering and Computational Mathematics (Ph.D.), Physical Therapy (DPT), Public Health (DR.P.H.) and Nursing Practice (DNP).
The university is home to one of the largest publicly funded art schools in the United States. The university is a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) and is eligible to be designated as an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander serving institution (AANAPISI).
History
The college was established in 1949 by California governor Earl Warren, to serve the rapidly expanding post-World War II population of Orange and Southern Los Angeles counties. The institution was first named the Los Angeles-Orange County State College, with Peter Victor Peterson as its first president.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1026926. VIAF identifies the subject as 148847859. The Library of Congress control number is n79112452. Authority coordinates are 33.782, -118.122. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024 and 1949.
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