SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – California State Universities’ (CSU) smallest branch, Cal Maritime Academy, is integrating with one of its largest, Cal Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Cal Maritime is the only degree-granting maritime academy on the west coast, offering both bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Its waterfront campus in Vallejo, Calif. was the perfect location for its programs specializing in maritime studies and technologies, but its dwelling enrollment rates and financial circumstances left them with little options.
Over the last seven years Cal Maritime enrollment numbers have declined by 31%, the school reported a headcount of only 761 students in the 2023-2024 school year . Cal Poly SLO on the other hand, had a reported student body of 22,279 in the same school year …