Bakersfield, CA
California State University-Bakersfield

It’s a wonderful school to attend if you want a casual college life experience. It’s not over bearing with students who just want to party every night but it’s also not just about learning. It’s what you would call a middle ground school where you will find student involved with clubs, recreational sports and the csub committee. With multiple access to classrooms, library and study rooms for all your exams.

Albeit that the CSUB I go to is the extension, I hope the main campus is better than the extension at AV. The extension is only for school and could do much more for its student body. CSUB could invest more time into making the AV extension into somewhere interesting and fun to go to but it only focuses on classes and nothing else. Organized sports and greek life would be great to start off.

I have only been attending for a few months and I would say that overall it’s a pretty good school. I never have any problems while I am there. I even like all my teachers! They have so far made my first year of college pretty good and not too stressful. I even recommended my sister to attend there next fall. I can not wait to graduate as a roadrunner!

California State University-Bakersfield is overall a great looking campus filled with kind and knowledgeable people. It has a lot of great facilities that the students can access for educational and recreational purposes. It offers a lot of different educational opportunities such as guest speakers as well as a lot of on-campus employment opportunities. The professors are kind and many go out of their way to help students. Overall it is a college I would recommend attending.

Overall, CSUB is a great campus, in my opinion, class sizes are big but small enough for one on one help. Also, school spirit is great and almost everyone is a team player when it comes to athletics and programs/events happening on campus. Professors, advisors, and faculty are almost always at your service whenever needed and everyone on campus is always nice and helpful. CSUB became a second home to me where I made great friends and even greater memories, though there is not much to do out in Bakersfield, making great friends and exploring is always a great way to make time pass by and have a good time.

There are several awesome professors at this college that want to see their students grow. Most of the professors are the best piece to this campus. The campus is small which has its pros and cons. Campus PD are cool. Good luck getting into classes if your major is accounting and you're a senior. Dorms are expensive. CSUB and Bakersfield leave a non-Bakersfieldian tittering at this tragedy. It is better than nothing. Graduate and get out!

It’s a great campus. As a college freshman, they are willing to help us out and guide us. During the orientation they made sure we were treated right and any question we had was answered along with any doubt and decision about our degree. The counselor for each degree came in to help us with our schedule or gave us their phone number to make an appointment. Overall the campus is clean and smoke free.

I love CSUB so much. I'm a student athlete here, and the athlete community is unlike any other community I've been apart of. I know nearly every athlete by name. My team is my family, and I am really good friends with lots of athletes from other teams. The dorms are a little pricey, but I had a great experience in the dorms. The security system is very strong, and I always felt safe in the dorms and the areas around the dorms even at night. The sporting events are so much fun to attend! We compete in Division 1, so our sports teams are at the highest level. Almost all of my professors have been extremely strong instructors who are clearly passionate about their discipline. Anywhere you go, there will be the occasional professor that is hard to work with or is boring, and you will find a few of those at CSUB. It's nothing too discouraging, though. As for off-campus housing, there are so many options. There are two different apartment complexes that are walking distance from campus. Both have pools and provide quite spacious living areas for a reasonable price. If you choose to live in a house, rent is so cheap in Bakersfield, especially if you have multiple roommates. There are also lots of people in Bakersfield so there are always new homes on the market. There are communities all around campus to get involved in. There are tons of different clubs to be apart of, and there is always encouragement for students to start a club if they are passionate about a cause. If you're looking for a strong Greek life, do not come here lol. CSUB is great for so many things except for its Greek life. There is no Greek row, and the frats/sororities are very small and underdeveloped. Maybe in the years to come this side of the university will grow, but as of now the Greek life is near nonexistent. I wouldn't doubt that Greek life will grow, however, because CSUB has shown such huge signs of growth lately. There is always renovation going on to build bigger and better facilities, and we have tons of acreage around the campus that is just waiting to be built upon. We just finished a new Student Rec center with tons of new workout machines and workout classes going on. We also plan to totally renovate the student union and put in a campus pool and I think even a lazy river. Come be apart of all of the excitement here at CSUB :)

When I decided to go to csub, I was really excited. The first week all of my classes seemed to be just what I expected (not to hard, but not to easy). I was thrilled. I would always give myself a pep talk. After my first semester ( passes all 12 units), I began having trouble with the staff not going all the way to help me resolve an issue I encountered. The story is very long, and one of the reasons I'm applying for this scholarship. I am a low income family and was dropped from all of my classes in the second semester because the school made an error with my financial aid, when they wanted me to repay the mistake they made, I no longer had the money. Now in order for me to return back to school I have to pay that back plus more. I don't work, because my husband is legally blind. I'm applying for scholarship to repay the school so that I can return back to school.

Been here for 4 years and it has that small school feel, which is nice. But sometimes it feels like a high school because you see the same faces around all the time. The city outside the campus is pretty dangerous so be catious. Other then that its cheap and you can get your classes.