About California State University Sacramento

California State University, Sacramento (CSUS, Sacramento State, or informally Sac State) is a public academe in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1947 as Sacramento State College, it is the eleventh oldest school in the 23-campus California State University system. The college circles enrolls approximately 31,500 students annually, has an alumni base of beyond 240,000 and awards 7,838 degrees annually. The academic circles offers 151 alternative Bachelor’s degrees, 69 Master’s degrees, 28 types of teaching credentials, and 5 Doctoral degrees. It is consistently one of the top three destinations among everything universities in the state for California Community College students, welcoming on culmination of 4,000 new transfers each academic year.

The campus sits upon 305 acres, covered with greater than 3,500 trees and beyond 1,200 resting in the University Arboretum (formerly the Goethe Arboretum). The the academy is the site of two National Register of Historic Places, the Julia Morgan House and the terminus of the Pony Express. The Arbor Day Foundation officially confirmed the university “Tree Campus USA” in 2012.

Sacramento (/ˌsækrəˈmɛntoʊ/ SAK-rə-MEN-toh; Spanish: [sakɾaˈmento], Spanish for ”sacrament”) is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the chair and largest city of Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in Northern California’s Sacramento Valley, Sacramento’s estimated 2019 population of 513,625 makes it the sixth-largest city in California and the ninth-largest capital in the United States. Sacramento is the seat of the California Legislature and the Governor of California, making it the state’s political middle and a hub for lobbying and think tanks. Sacramento is furthermore the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area, which at the 2010 census had a population of 2,414,783, making it the fifth-largest in California.

Before the start of the Spanish, the Place was inhabited by the Nisenan, Maidu and other native peoples of California. Spanish cavalryman Gabriel Moraga surveyed and named the Rio del Santísimo Sacramento (Sacramento River) in 1808, after the Blessed Sacrament, referring to the Eucharist in the Catholic Church. In 1839, Juan Bautista Alvarado, Mexican superintendent of Alta California, granted the answerability of colonizing the Sacramento Valley to Swiss-born Mexican citizen John Augustus Sutter, who subsequently normal Sutter’s Fort and the concurrence at the Rancho Nueva Helvetia. Following the American Conquest of California and the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the haven developed by Sutter began to be developed, and incorporated in 1850 as the City of Sacramento.

Sacramento is the fastest-growing major city in California, owing to its status as a notable financial center on the West Coast and as a major college hub, home of California State University, Sacramento and University of California, Davis. Similarly, Sacramento is a major middle for the California healthcare industry, as the chair of Sutter Health, the world-renowned UC Davis Medical Center, and the UC Davis School of Medicine, and notable tourist destination in California, as the site of the California Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, the California State Railroad Museum, the California Hall of Fame, the California State Capitol Museum, and the Old Sacramento State Historic Park. Sacramento International Airport, located northwest of the city, is the city’s major airport. Sacramento is known for its evolving contemporary culture, dubbed the most “hipster city” in California. In 2002, the Harvard University Civil Rights Project conducted for Time magazine named Sacramento “America’s Most Diverse City”.