• President: Dr. Ruben Armiñana
• Founded: 1960
• Mascot: Seawolves
• Accreditation: Western Association of Schools and Colleges
• Member: Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges
• Mid-size campus (8,000 students, 86% undergraduates)
• 63/37% female to male ratio
• 3,100 residential students
• Top 10 majors (by number of applicants):
  • Business
  • Biology
  • Kinesiology
  • Communications
  • Psychology
  • Hutchins
  • Pre-Nursing
  • English
  • Criminal Justice
  • History
• Graduate 2,200 students per year
• 45 bachelor's degree programs; 16 master's degree programs
• 9 credential programs; 8 certificate programs
• 269 richly-landscaped acres

Sonoma State University is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. SSU is also a member of the prestigious Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, an association of public colleges and universities whose primary mission is ensuring that fine undergraduate liberal arts and sciences education is available to students in the public systems of higher education. SSU is the only California member of COPLAC.

Individual program accreditations granted by:

• American Chemical Society
• National Association of Schools of Music
• National League for Nursing
• National Association for Schools of Art and Design
• Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
• Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs
• School of Education programs approved by Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC)
• National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)

The SSU Alumni Association is a non-profit corporation designed to support and further the development of SSU. The Association's mission is to provide service to Sonoma State University alumni as well as encourage and enhance their life-long relationship with the university. The Association sponsors alumni programs and events and provides student scholarships. Membership is open to graduates, former students, and friends of SSU.

Total Number of SSU Alumni:  53,000

The SSU Intercollegiate Athletics Program participates in the California Collegiate Athletic Association as a Division II program of the NCAA. Currently, five men's and eight women's intercollegiate teams compete. In addition, there is a wide variety of sports clubs and an active intramural and recreational sports program.

Each year, SSU sponsors hundreds of seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences, exhibits, and other public programs. In addition, thousands of North Bay residents attend public performances on campus each year, produced or sponsored by the Center for Performing Arts. The University Art Gallery and University Library Gallery are major attractions for local artists, hosting numerous exhibits each year.

Within SSU's 36 academic departments, degrees areffered in 41 majors and 46 minors at the bachelor's level and 14 at the master's level.  The Universityffers a joint master's degree in mathematics with San Francisco State University and a joint doctorate in educational administration with California State University, Sacramento and the Universityf California, Davis. There are nine credential programs and eight undergraduate and graduate certificate programs. SSU alsoffersnef thenly Wine Business programs in the country. Basic teaching credential programs in education include multiple subject, multiple subject BCLAD, single subject, administrative services, reading/language arts (certificater specialist), special education (mild/moderater moderate/severe), pupil personnel services (via the Counseling Department).

• Majors: Undergraduate
• Majors: Graduate
• Minor Programs
• Credentials
• Certificates
• General Education

Satellite Centers

SSU offers upper-division programs in Ukiah and Napa, leading to a BA degree in liberal studies.

SSU's School of Extended Education features a variety of development programs including courses for professional relicensure, certificate programs in such diverse fields as Construction (Green Building and Construction Management), Law (Paralegal), Business (Accounting and Human Resource Management) and Counseling (Child/Infant Mental Health). Additionally, the School offers several fully accredited degree programs: a Liberal Studies B.A. degree completion program and an Interdisciplinary M.A.; M.A. degrees in Organization Development and Depth Psychology; and the Master of Computer and Engineering Science program. Among its community-based programs are EXCEL, a summer enrichment program for youth, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Educational Travel programs and the Sonoma State American Language Institute.

Data: March 2008

Founded

Sonoma State College was founded in 1960 when Governor Edmund G. Brown signed Senate Bill 43 establishing the college as a member of the California State College system. The college opened in temporary quarters in 1961 under the leadership of founding president Ambrose R. Nichols, Jr. with an enrollment of 265 upper-division students. Most of the faculty and administrators of the Santa Rosa Center of San Francisco State College, which had served the region since 1956, joined the new college. Sonoma State College moved to its present 269-acre site in 1966 when its first two buildings, Stevenson and Darwin Halls, were completed. By then there were more than 1,000 students enrolled. In 1978, University status was granted and the name of the college was changed to Sonoma State University.

University Milestones

Presidents

The campus provides housing for 3,200 students in residential suites and apartments. Around 90% of the freshmen class and around 50% of all undergraduates live on campus. All accommodations are fully furnished and directly wired into the University's computing network.

Holdings

The library has a collection of more than 670,000 volumes, with 8,000 new titles added each year. Current periodical subscriptions number over 35,000 (in both print and electronic formats).

Specialized Collections

• North Bay Regional Collection
• Extensive children’s book collection
• Wine business resources
• Jack London collection including first editions, letters, and original serialized stories

Services

• Instruction
• Research assistance
• Innovative study spaces
• Extensive computing resources

Circulation

Almost 275,000 items each year.

Visits

There were more than 630,000 visits by students, faculty, staff, and community users in 2007-2008.

Electronic Resources

From the library web site, students, faculty, and staff have access to the library catalog, more than 160 databases covering all academic subject areas, and a continuously increasing number of full-text journal articles.

Size and Location

269 acres, located in Rohnert Park at the foot of the Sonoma Mountains. The campus is an hour’s drive north of San Francisco and centrally located between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the wine country to the north and east.

Buildings and Facilities

* Total includes all facilities, not just those listed above.

Enrollment — 2008

Student Fees — Fall 2009

These fees are required of all students each semester.

Non-Resident Tution

$399 per unit, in addition to resident fees

Note: The CSU makes every effort to keep student costs to a minimum. Fees listed in published schedules or student accounts may need to be increased when public funding is inadequate. Therefore, CSU must reserve the right, even after initial fee payments are made, to increase or modify any listed fees, without notice, until the date when instruction for a particular semester or quarter has begun. All CSU listed fees should be regarded as estimates that are subject to change upon approval by The Board of Trustees.

** Students seeking an initial Multiple Subject, Single Subject, or Special Education teaching credential (preliminary, clear, Level I, or Level II) admitted to a credential program with classified or conditionally classified status.

Degrees Conferred — 2007-2008

These are undergraduate and graduate degrees awarded in Fall '07, Spring '08, and Summer '08, and includes approximately 70 double majors.