Cal Poly Pomona College of Engineering
college of engineering in the city of Pomona, California
The Cal Poly Pomona College of Engineering is the engineering college at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) in Pomona, California, United States. Known for its "learn by doing" philosophy, the college's motto, coined by Dean Mahyar A. Amouzegar in 2012, is "Learn by Doing: Making Imagination Real". The college enrolls more than 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students, making it one of the largest engineering colleges in the United States—the 23rd largest in the country, according to the college. As of 2019, it was the largest engineering college in Southern California and the second largest in the California State University system.
In the 2026 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges" rankings, the College of Engineering tied for ninth among undergraduate engineering programs at schools where a doctorate is not offered, its fourth consecutive year in the top ten. In the American Society for Engineering Education's data covering 2022, the college's civil engineering program awarded more bachelor's degrees than any other institution in the United States. Freshman admission to the college's majors is determined through the university's multifactor admission model, which does not consider SAT or ACT scores, and several of its majors—aerospace, civil, computer, electrical, and mechanical engineering—are designated impacted (enrollment-limited), with admission thresholds well above the university baseline.
History
Engineering classes at the Kellogg Campus in Pomona, California of the California Polytechnic began in academic year 1957–58. At the time, the Engineering Center (the current two-story portion of Building 9) had not been finalized and it took two more years, until 1959, to complete. The first class of the College of Engineering graduated in 1960 with 11 graduates in the disciplines of Aeronautical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
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