Clinical Nutrition Programs in San Diego State University

For a station that serves the campus, see SDSU Transit Center. San Diego State University (SDSU), founded in 1897, San Diego Normal School, is the oldest higher education institution and the largest in the San Diego area over (in general, the City and County of San Diego ), and is part of the California State University. It is the third oldest University in the system of the California State University, and one of the oldest universities in California. SDSU has a student population of about 29,256 (at the beginning of the fall 2009 school year) and a database of more than 200,000 alumni. San Diego State University had an acceptance rate of 31.2% for the 2008 academic year.According to the website SDSU, the university received 62,000 applications for school year 2008. The Carnegie Foundation has designated San Diego State University a "Research University with high research activity." SDSU is the only campus of California State University in this classification, which ranks among the top 200 institutions higher education in the country conducting research. In particular, according to the index of Faculty Scholarly Productivity (FSP Index) released by the Academic Analytics