Best California State Schools

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Top California State Programs Comparison

The next table lists the top 19 California State Programs for academic year 2022-2023. Azusa Pacific University ranked top in the Best California State Schools and Biola University and California Institute of Technology follows it. The 2023 average tuition & fees is $50,077 for undergraduate programs $34,026 for graduate programs. The average SAT score of the top California State Programs is 1,313 and the acceptance rate is 41.27%. The average students to faculty ratio is 15.16 to 1 for top California State Programs. You can sort the schools by clicking column name that you want to sort.
2022-2023 Top California State Programs Comparison
Rank*NameTuition & FeesAverage Financial AidPopulationAcceptance RateTest ScoresStudents to Faculty Ratio
269 Azusa Pacific University
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Private, 4-yearsAzusa, CA
$43,600 $21,726 7,16987% 1,110 SAT
25 ACT
10 to 1
217 Biola University
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Private, 4-yearsLa Mirada, CA
$46,704 $23,947 5,38757% 1,250 SAT
26 ACT
13 to 1
9 California Institute of Technology
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Private, 4-yearsPasadena, CA
$63,255 $47,135 2,4013% - 3 to 1
59 University of California-Berkeley
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Public, 4-yearsBerkeley, CA
$45,627
($14,850)
$22,200 45,30711% - 19 to 1
197 University of California-Davis
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Public, 4-yearsDavis, CA
$46,024
($15,247)
$20,054 39,67937% - 21 to 1
228 University of California-Irvine
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Public, 4-yearsIrvine, CA
$45,014
($14,237)
$18,266 35,93721% - 18 to 1
56 University of California-Los Angeles
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Public, 4-yearsLos Angeles, CA
$44,524
($13,747)
$21,322 46,4309% - 18 to 1
723 University of California-Riverside
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Public, 4-yearsRiverside, CA
$44,947
($14,170)
$20,324 26,80969% - 24 to 1
174 University of California-San Diego
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Public, 4-yearsLa Jolla, CA
$46,042
($15,265)
$20,811 42,00624% - 19 to 1
164 University of California-Santa Barbara
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Public, 4-yearsSanta Barbara, CA
$45,742
($14,965)
$19,654 26,42026% - 17 to 1
502 University of California-Santa Cruz
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Public, 4-yearsSanta Cruz, CA
$45,337
($14,560)
$20,896 19,47847% - 23 to 1
324 University of La Verne
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Private, 4-yearsLa Verne, CA
$47,000 $25,670 5,66274% 1,115 SAT
22 ACT
11 to 1
173 University of the Pacific
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Private, 4-yearsStockton, CA
$55,340 $35,304 6,27793% 1,255 SAT
29 ACT
14 to 1
93 Pepperdine University
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Private, 4-yearsMalibu, CA
$66,742 $33,245 10,03049% 1,390 SAT
31 ACT
13 to 1
358 San Diego State University
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Public, 4-yearsSan Diego, CA
$20,170
($8,290)
$8,114 37,40239% - 25 to 1
329 University of San Diego
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Private, 4-yearsSan Diego, CA
$56,444 $34,473 8,81553% - 13 to 1
708 University of San Francisco
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Private, 4-yearsSan Francisco, CA
$58,222 $27,525 9,68871% 1,310 SAT
29 ACT
13 to 1
27 University of Southern California
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Private, 4-yearsLos Angeles, CA
$68,237 $43,570 48,94512% 1,520 SAT
34 ACT
9 to 1
2 Stanford University
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Private, 4-yearsStanford, CA
$62,484 $56,737 18,2834% 1,550 SAT
35 ACT
5 to 1
Average$50,077
($13,926)
$27,420 442,12541.27% 1,313 SAT
28.8750 ACT
15.16 to 1
*Ranking data provided by CollegeEvaluator.
All data used in our site is from IPEDS (The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System), U.S. Department of Education, academic year 2022-2023