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From an education perspective, I started in UC Riverside and then transferred to CSU Northridge when I changed my major and CSUN was the only school in CA that had my major...
When I was in UCR, the GE classes were HUGE...like 500-700 students!! Each class also had a 1-hour class with a T.A. who provided the assignments and reviewed the lecture material for the week and could answer our questions more personally...now mind you, UCR only had 7000 students when I went there in 1986...it's population has grown to over 25,000 students since then!!
When I transferred to CSUN, I still had GE's to finish in addition to my major classes. My largest class ever was 80 students. The professors could identify with us and the classes seemed more personable....when I transferred to CSUN, there were 30,000 students there!!! (in 1988).
From a Bachelor's student perspective, really, there's no difference between the CSU and UC systems...like any other university system, each college has strong majors and weaker majors and I always recommend students look at their major and determine their choice for colleges based on the program...like I said, CSUN is the only university in CA that has (to this day) a Bachelor's degree in my major (Deaf Studies), and is the best on the west coast...so staying in a UC wasn't practical for me...I felt more heard in the CSU system and my professors interacted more with me than the UC system...not to say that UC isn't a good system...it's great! But students need to focus on their individual needs...not what the name of their school is...
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