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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 ranks first on U.S. News & World Report's list of best undergraduate teaching programs in the West.

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

U.S. News and World Report ranks our civil engineering program third among schools whose highest degree offered is a bachelor's or master's.

U.S. News & World Report ranks Cal Poly as the No. 1 Top Public School in the West.

Cal Poly is the most innovative school in the west for the second year in a row according to U.S. News & World Report.

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