Fullerton, California is home to a public institution of higher education known as California State University, Fullerton (CSUF or Cal State Fullerton). It has the largest undergraduate student body of the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system, which has a total enrollment of more than 41,000 students. Both of these statistics make it the largest university in both categories. As of the fall semester of 2016, the institution had a total faculty population of 2,083, of whom 782 were working for tenure.
The institution confers a total of 109 degrees, 55 of which are awarded at the undergraduate level, 54 at the graduate level, and three at the doctoral level.
It is possible for Cal State Fullerton to be certified as an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander serving school in addition to its current status as a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) (AANAPISI). In the fields of art, athletic training, business, chemistry, communications, communicative disorders, computer science, dance, engineering, music, nursing, public administration, public health, social work, teacher education, and theatre, the institution has earned national accreditation. The spending that is associated with CSUF contributes around $2.26 billion to the economy of California and the surrounding area, and it helps to maintain roughly 16,000 employment throughout the state.
The Titans are the collective moniker given to all of CSUF's sports programmes, which all participate in Division I of the NCAA. The Big West Conference is where they play their games.