Love csuf! Made so many memories and friends! The campus is very nice and super big. My only issue…read morewith this school is THE PARKING!! The parking services are terrible and treat freshman horrible! I got a total of 5 parking tickets and appealed them all and found out I was in the right of way and it was there mistake! Freshman have to park in LOTS8 and have to walk all the way to the dorms which is fine but I don't feel safe at night. There is a shuttle but only from 7pm-2-am. Other than parking csuf is a great school

If you are transferring from a community college to CSUF, please make sure every transferred course…read moreis correctly reflected in your TDA before registering for additional classes. I highly recommend meeting with multiple advisors and keeping written documentation of any guidance you receive. My experience at CSUF was exciting at first, and I was genuinely looking forward to completing my degree. However, I encountered significant issues with the transfer-credit evaluation process that resulted in me taking additional courses that ultimately did not apply toward my degree requirements as expected. On several occasions, I contacted counselors for clarification regarding whether specific community college courses would satisfy CSUF requirements. Unfortunately, I either received no response or inconsistent information. Some transferred courses were accepted, while others were later denied despite my efforts to verify them beforehand. I believe CSUF would greatly benefit from improving communication between advising departments and updating the TDA system to provide clearer, more consistent transfer-credit evaluations. Doing so could help future transfer students avoid unnecessary coursework, additional tuition costs, and delayed graduation timelines.

I've attended FC for well over 10 years (took my time) and absolutely loved almost every class I…read moretook. They truly offer a quality education to our community and the campus is so classic and beautiful with many historical buildings. They are currently under some construction but I'm excited to see all the new buildings and renovations that are in the works. They also have non credit classes across over by admissions through NOCE and they are tuition free!

I am astonished by the disorganization of the class. I purchased a package deal at the Fullerton…read moreCollege bookstore that included a physical textbook and online access code to complete chapter assignments. Come to find out, my physical textbook didn't correspond to the online textbook. Paragraphs were missing in each chapter, or data statistics were not the same. The textbook was sold to me was published in 2022 and the online textbook was published in 2024. I scratch notes and make highlights physically into my book to help me study information l, hence why I purchased the textbook. When attempting to fill in information that was missing, it became ok much to do in each chapter. I informed my professor that I am getting chapter questions incorrect due to questions being asked that were not in my physical textbook. My professor's response was "...printed textbooks are published every 3 to 4 years. By the time it gets to print what was written is 9 months old before the actual publish date... Unfortunately, we cannot stop the world from changing." Is this something where I say "you're right Professor. What was I thinking?" Why do I spend money on outdated material? It appears that the material is sold at the Fullerton College bookstore because the professor approved it. I ask again, why do I have an outdated textbook that was sold to me by the school?

Horrible service. Everyone else was so polite and helpful, unfortunately I was helped by a staff…read moremember named Rita. She was so rude to me and others, I have no idea how she's still there.. I look forward to speaking with someone who can actually do something about this.

The policies and procedures at this institution are archaic. Departments that should be working…read moretogether--like Psychology, Sociology, and Philosophy--often have no idea what the others are doing, even when they're addressing the same student requirements. Professors within these departments teach drastically different content and expectations for what are supposed to be standardized courses. The curriculum hasn't been updated in years--circa 2005--and it shows. Policies, procedures, and codes of conduct are inconsistently enforced. Transferring is an entirely separate headache: departments pass off responsibilities to each other, and overwhelmed, underpaid staff members without adequate knowledge leave students to pay the price. There are other schools better equipped to help students meet today's challenges and develop practical life skills. And while this institution promotes a Christian identity, it often feels like it only scratches the surface--leaning more toward spiritual bypass than genuine transformation. Bottom line? You deserve better. Keep looking.

Fran is the most rude human with no compassion or kindness towards kids or parents. She calls…read moreherself a manager but I can't imagine that kind of person leading others. My sister was told one thing by an employee and Fran was incredibly insistent that it was false and she must have heard wrong. When my sister said I want my refund back I don't want to make Buisness with you no more Fran said be cause she cancelled an order she could never ever come back?!! Who makes that up like that to a mother of a Down syndrome child. Already dealing with her first child and sadly he has his troubles due to his syndrome and fran had to make my sister feel So low!! By screaming at her staff "oh now we have to disinfect this whole area" after my nephew sneezed. She didn't have the common courtesy to wait till she left to tell her staff. Such an ugly human being.

Review from 2019 // Just attended the white coat ceremony last weekend for this pharmacy school and…read moreit was hosted at Hope University down the street from here. We have family attending this school. The school had some good cake afterwards for people to eat at the reception. The class was only 50 pharmacy students.

I've been a student at CSUF for 4 years, and I think it's safe to say that Mihaylo is my favorite…read moredestination to use the toilet (when I really have to). Floors 4 and 5 are usually empty, squeaky clean, and odor-free. I've contemplated whether or not I should've kept this secret to myself by giving this building a 1 star review, but I decided to share this knowledge with my fellow Titans solely out of school pride. PS. I'm a Kinesiology major (minored in Business Admin). I make the long walk from the Kinesiology building to Mihaylo JUST to use the 4th and 5th floor toilets when I really have to go. Every single step is worth it!!

Great building. AC is always booming. Classrooms are filled with comfy swivel chairs…read more JOIN A CLUB! :)

Low cost speech therapy by speech-language pathology graduate students under the the direct…read moresupervision of licensed, certified speech-language pathologists and audiologists with extensive experience. I've never personally used the speech therapy service here but many of my friends recommend it. It's a great resource if you're on a limited therapy budget. However, the quality of therapy may not be on par with an experienced speech therapist.

This is a great clinic! I'm biased as a student clinician here but for the price, you probably…read morewon't find therapy elsewhere that's better for the cost.

One of the best colleges for Computer Science majors. All the faculty here are nice and friendly…read more They care about their students and their future. Lovely staff members help out all the students to reach out to their goal.

These dorms are fairly new (~3 years old). There are 4 floors? 5 floors? I don't remember... I went…read morewith my boyfriend to visit his younger sister here. From the outside, the dorms look really abstract due to the different placings of the windows. When you see the dorms, you'll know what I'm talking about. You need to swipe your card to get in, you need to swipe your card & punch in a number to go into your room, and you need to swipe your card & punch in a number to go to the bathroom. And thank the lawd for elevators. It would totally suck if there were no elevators in these dorms. I wish I was able to dorm when I was a freshman.. *sigh*

As much as I'd want to rate the dorms higher because of my awesome memories there, I can't. The…read moreyear I spent living on campus was a blast - it's convenient, you can explore campus at night, there are study rooms open all the time. We made some awesome friendships, even with the ducks and raccoons that roamed the grounds. The actual dorms themselves weren't terrible, but compared to every other on campus housing I've visited they dwindle in comparison. (We did have balconies in the doubles though, which was sweet). But most of all, there were so many random issues that came up that just kind of ... sucked. This is for the 2012-2013 school year, so hopefully things have improved. One of the biggest issues I had was with the way the keys worked. If you somehow got locked out the temporary key could only be borrowed for an hour - meaning you pick it up, use it to get back in the room, and have to go drop it back off in the office. This was fine if you locked your key in the room, but not fine if you actually lost it. Because the keys were encoded on our id cards, and the library would only give new id cards on the weekdays, if you lost your id card after 5 pm on Friday you couldn't get a new encoded one until Monday morning. You'd either have to be an annoying roommate constantly asking to get back in or lock yourself in your room all weekend. The first semester one of the apartments had this "minor" issue where anything that went down the garbage disposal from the floors above it would come UP their sink. Yes, exactly ... what. The food we put down the sink on the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd floors came up and out of the sink on the 1st floor. One day they came back to an apartment flooded with the food remains and water from the upper floors, which needless to say smelt absolutely disgusting. The three upper apartments couldn't use the garbage disposal for a few days, everyone from the bottom one just avoided the living room. It got fixed, but that isn't something that should need to be fixed in the first place. When we came back for second semester we were greeted with broken water heaters, which meant no warm showers even in January. Our entire building had cold water apparently because of some part that needed to be ordered and would take a bit to ship. They did leave kind little notes on our doors saying we could use freshman dorm showers in other buildings if we wanted too. Also, they did give us all free movie tickets for the troubles. How sweet, we can have a smelly group outing to the cinema! It ended up fixed a week or so later, but again ... seriously? On a more positive note, the groundskeeper who maintains all the plants is super cheery and always made my day! Always greeted good morning with a smile on his face. Even if he was just doing weeds he would make some comment like "weeds are just flowers that grow in the wrong places", his positivity was a nice way to start any day.

Little do people realize that Cal State Fullerton has quite an extensive collection of carnivorous…read moreplants. I discovered this during my first or second semester when the LA Weekly ran a story on a club of remarkable individuals who grew the meat-eating vegetation as a hobby. Listed among the members was Ed Read, who ran the greenhouses near CSUF's McCarthy Hall. A year or so later, I took a tour of the greenhouses with Mr. Read himself. He was so very helpful while also laid-back. The man really knows his plants, and since this is something he also does when not on the clock he really loves to talk about them. If you go to take pictures, he'll walk around with you, tell you about each plant, and write the name of it on a piece of paper and hold it in front of the plant for you so you'll be able to identify it later. CSUF also has several specimens of titan arum (a.k.a. corpse flowers), the plant that smells like rotting meat when it blooms (which is considered a big deal when it does blossom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_publicised_titan_arum_blooms_in_cultivation). The greenhouses just tend to go unnoticed by the general student population, and they're quite a gem. Ed cultivates all sorts of carnivorous plants, some of them rare in the States like Albany Pitcher Plants from Perth, Australia. It's completely free to walk around the greenhouses, but it would be best to call Ed ahead of time so he knows who you are and what you're doing.

What a hidden gem on the campus of Cal State University Fullerton!…read more While most plant-lovers might head straight on over to the Fullerton Arboretum, the Biology Greenhouse Complex holds many rare and tropical treasures that are not to be missed! The carnivorous plant collection alone is worth the trip. Tours can be scheduled in advance with the greenhouse manager who is knowledgeable, friendly and helpful. Open to students M-F 8am-4:30pm