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Rankings and Awards

Our focus on Learn by Doing and its ability to produce a high return on investment, has consistently helped us achieve high rankings in influential university ranking publications such as U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Cal Poly earned a STARS Gold Rating — the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s second highest honor — in recognition of the university’s sustainability achievements.

Cal Poly’s team took first place for the second year in a row at the Food Distribution Research Society’s National Student Food Marketing Challenge in Seattle.

Cal Poly’s electrical engineering program ranks second among schools whose highest degree offered is a bachelor's or master's according to U.S. News and World Report.

Cal Poly is the best public, master’s-level university in the West by U.S. News & World Report’s annual America’s Best Colleges guidebook for the 27th straight year.

Cal Poly’s tops U.S. News & World Report’s list for best master’s/bachelor’s engineering programs.

U.S. News and World Report ranks Cal Poly’s mechanical engineering program second among schools whose highest degree offered is a bachelor's or master's.