Rohnert Park, CA
The SSU educational experience fosters intellectual, cognitive, social and personal growth. The faculty and staff provide collaborative relationships with students and an education that fosters ethical exploration, civic engagement, social responsibility, and global awareness combined with a solid foundation in an academic discipline. Many classes average fewer than 40 students, allowing close interaction between students and faculty.
Sonoma State University offers nine credential programs and eight undergraduate and graduate certificate programs. Basic teaching credential programs in education include multiple subject, multiple subject BCLAD, single subject, administrative services, reading/language arts (certificate or specialist), special education (mild/moderate or moderate/severe), and pupil personnel services (via the Counseling Department).
The university is comprised of six schools: Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Education, Extended & International Education, Science and Technology and Social Sciences. Degrees are offered in 46 majors and 47 minors at the bachelor's level and 15 at the master's level. The university offers a joint master s degree in mathematics with San Francisco State University. It also offers nine credential programs and eight undergraduate and graduate certificate programs. Sonoma State offers one of the only wine business programs in the country.
One of the most requested campuses in the CSU system and regularly named a Best Regional University by U.S. News & World Report. SSU has also been named one of the most wired campuses in the nation by Princeton Review. SSU is the only California university invited to be a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, a prestigious group of 25 universities and colleges across the nation committed to providing superior liberal arts and sciences education to their students.