California Polytechnic State University

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, universally known as Cal Poly, is a public polytechnic university on California's Central Coast and the oldest of the three polytechnic campuses in the California State University system, having opened in 1901 and not to be confused with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena加州理工州立大学（圣路易斯-奥比斯波），通称 Cal Poly，是位于加利福尼亚州中央海岸的公立理工科大学，也是加州州立大学系统中三所理工类校区里历史最悠久的一所，1901 年开办，不应与帕萨迪纳的加州理工学院混淆。

Cal Poly organises its teaching around the slogan "Learn by Doing", awarding 65 bachelor's degrees, 39 master's degrees, 84 minors and 13 credentials through six colleges, and enrolled roughly 22,000 undergraduates and 900 graduate students in fall 2025加州理工州立大学以「在实践中学习」为办学宗旨，通过六个学院授予 65 个学士学位、39 个硕士学位、84 个辅修方向和 13 种资格证书，2025 年秋季学期约有 2.2 万名本科生与 900 名研究生在读。

Its 9,967.6-acre landholding makes it one of the largest university campuses in the United States, its teams compete as the Mustangs in NCAA Division I, and QS placed it in the 1401+ band of the 2027 world ranking学校土地面积达 9967.6 英亩，是美国面积最大的大学校园之一，校队以「野马」为名参加 NCAA 一级联赛，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1401+ 区间。

History

• Cal Poly traces its origin to 1901, when the California Polytechnic School Bill was signed by Governor Henry Gage after a campaign led by the San Luis Obispo journalist and booster Myron Angel加州理工州立大学的历史可追溯至 1901 年，在圣路易斯-奥比斯波记者兼地方推动者迈伦·安杰尔的游说之后，州长亨利·盖奇签署了《加州理工学校法案》。
• Classes began on 1 October 1903 with 20 students, of whom 16 were men and 4 were women, and the school initially offered three-year secondary-level courses rather than college degrees学校于 1903 年 10 月 1 日开学，首批 20 名学生中有 16 名男生和 4 名女生，当时提供的是三年制中等教育课程而非大学学位课程。
• In 1924 the school passed into the control of the California State Board of Education, a shift that tied its curriculum and funding to the state's evolving vocational education policy1924 年，学校转由加利福尼亚州教育委员会管理，这一变化使其课程与经费同州层面不断调整的职业教育政策挂钩。
• Governor C. C. Young barred women from enrolling in 1929, and they were not readmitted until 1956, a gap that still shapes the university's memory of its early coeducational years1929 年州长 C. C. 扬禁止女性入学，直到 1956 年才重新招收女生，这段空白至今仍影响着学校对其早期男女同校历史的叙述。
• During the Great Depression, budget pressure led Sacramento legislators to debate converting the campus into a state prison, a plan defused by Julian McPhee, who then presided over the institution for thirty-three years from 1933 to 1966大萧条期间，州议会在预算压力下曾讨论把校园改建成州立监狱，这一方案被朱利安·麦克菲化解，他随后从 1933 年至 1966 年执掌该校长达 33 年。
• In 1933 Cal Poly was reclassified as a two-year technological and vocational school, concentrating on trades, agriculture and engineering practice rather than academic degrees1933 年，加州理工被重新定位为两年制技术与职业学校，重心放在手艺、农业和工程实践而非学术学位上。
• Charles and Jerry Voorhis donated a farm and a school to the institution in 1938, enlarging its agricultural teaching base in the rolling country south of San Luis Obispo1938 年，查尔斯·沃里斯与杰里·沃里斯向学校捐赠了一座农场和一所学校，扩大了其在圣路易斯-奥比斯波以南丘陵地带的农业教学基地。
• By 1940 Cal Poly had begun awarding Bachelor of Arts degrees, and the first baccalaureate ceremony took place in 1942, marking its transition from a secondary trade school into a college到 1940 年，加州理工已开始授予文学学士学位，首届学士学位授予典礼于 1942 年举行，标志着它从中等职业学校转变为学院。
• In 1947 the institution was renamed California State Polytechnic College to reflect its expanding higher education programmes, and a Master of Arts in education followed in 19491947 年，学校更名为加州州立理工学院，以反映其不断扩展的高等教育课程，1949 年又增设了教育学文学硕士。
• The W. K. Kellogg Foundation gifted an 812-acre horse ranch in Pomona in 1949, creating a southern satellite that would eventually become the separate university Cal Poly Pomona in 19661949 年，W. K. 凯洛格基金会捐赠了波莫纳一处 812 英亩的养马场，由此建立的南部卫星校区于 1966 年独立为加州理工州立大学波莫纳分校。
• In 1960 control of Cal Poly and the other state colleges passed to the newly formed California State University system, the same year a plane crash killed 22 of the 48 people on board, including 16 Cal Poly football players1960 年，加州理工与其他州立学院的管辖权移交给新成立的加州州立大学系统，同年一起空难造成机上 48 人中的 22 人遇难，其中包括 16 名加州理工橄榄球队员。
• Cal Poly was authorised to award Master of Science degrees in 1967 and reorganised its curriculum between 1967 and 1970 into the School of Science and Mathematics, the School of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the School of Architecture加州理工于 1967 年获准授予理学硕士学位，并在 1967 年至 1970 年间把课程重组为理学院、农业与自然资源学院以及建筑学院。
• Student engineers launched the campus FM station KCPR in 1968 as a senior project, and the station has remained a student-run fixture of the San Luis Obispo airwaves ever since1968 年，学生工程师把校园调频电台 KCPR 作为毕业设计创办起来，此后该电台一直是圣路易斯-奥比斯波广播中由学生运营的固定存在。
• In 1971 the California State Legislature formally renamed the institution California Polytechnic State University, the name it retains in official documents and diplomas today1971 年，加州州议会正式将学校定名为加州理工州立大学，这一名称沿用至今，出现在官方文件与学位证书上。
• Cal Poly competed in NCAA Division II until 1994, winning 35 national team championships in that era before moving its programmes into Division I competition加州理工直到 1994 年都参加 NCAA 二级联赛，在此期间共赢得 35 项全国团体冠军，之后才转入一级联赛。
• On 3 May 2017 the university received a gift of 110 million dollars from alumni William L. Frost and Linda Frost, one of the largest single donations ever made to public higher education in California2017 年 5 月 3 日，学校收到校友威廉·L. 弗罗斯特与琳达·弗罗斯特夫妇 1.1 亿美元捐赠，这是加州公立高等教育史上最大的单笔捐赠之一。
• In 2022 Cal Poly created the Noyce School of Applied Computing by combining electrical engineering, computer engineering and software engineering under one academic umbrella funded by the Robert N. Noyce Trust2022 年，加州理工把电气工程、计算机工程与软件工程合并到同一个学术架构之下，成立诺伊斯应用计算学院，资金来源为罗伯特·N. 诺伊斯信托。
• Two years later the Noyce Trust added a 60 million dollar gift to endow the school, securing its operating budget for the foreseeable future and cementing computing as a signature Cal Poly strength两年后，诺伊斯信托又追加 6000 万美元捐赠为该学院设立永续基金，为其可预见未来的运营预算提供保障，也使计算学科成为加州理工的标志性优势。
• In 2024 the California State University system recommended merging the California Maritime Academy into Cal Poly, and the CSU Board of Trustees approved the integration on 21 November 20242024 年，加州州立大学系统建议把加州海事学院并入加州理工，加州州立大学董事会于 2024 年 11 月 21 日批准了这一整合方案。
• Since 1 July 2025 the two institutions have operated as a single university, with Corey Cook named vice president and chief executive officer of the Solano Campus in Vallejo and Eric C. Jones, a retired Coast Guard rear admiral, appointed superintendent of the Maritime Academy自 2025 年 7 月 1 日起，两校作为一个大学整体运作，科里·库克出任瓦列霍索拉诺校区副校长兼首席执行官，退役海岸警卫队少将埃里克·C. 琼斯出任海事学院院长。
• Full academic integration is scheduled for fall 2026, when every Maritime Academy and Solano Campus student will be enrolled as a Cal Poly student, extending the university's footprint from San Luis Obispo to Solano County完整的学术整合计划于 2026 年秋季完成，届时海事学院与索拉诺校区的全部学生都将注册为加州理工学生，学校版图也从圣路易斯-奥比斯波延伸到索拉诺县。

Academics

• Cal Poly teaches through six colleges, namely the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the Orfalea College of Business, the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts and the Bailey College of Science and Mathematics加州理工通过六个学院开展教学，即农业、食品与环境科学学院，建筑与环境设计学院，奥法莱亚商学院，工程学院，人文学院，以及贝利科学与数学学院。
• As of 2020 the university offered 65 bachelor's degrees, 39 master's degrees, 84 minors and 13 teaching credentials, a portfolio built around applied fields rather than a broad doctoral research base截至 2020 年，学校开设 65 个学士学位、39 个硕士学位、84 个辅修方向和 13 种教师资格证书项目，其专业结构以应用领域为核心，而非以博士研究为基础。
• Every undergraduate must complete a senior project, a capstone that can take the form of a design build, an experiment, a research study, an internship report, a public portfolio or a performance每位本科生都必须完成一项毕业设计，形式可以是设计建造、实验、研究、实习报告、公开展示的作品集或演出。
• Senior projects have produced commercial ventures such as Punchd, a digital loyalty card startup acquired by Google, and have been credited with inspiring the founders of Jamba Juice毕业设计曾催生商业项目，例如被谷歌收购的数字会员卡创业公司 Punchd，也被认为启发了 Jamba Juice 创始人的创意。
• A patch of campus known as the Architecture Graveyard displays experimental and unconventional student-built structures, many of them senior projects left in place as an outdoor laboratory校园内一片被称为「建筑墓地」的区域陈列着学生建造的实验性与非常规结构，其中许多是留在原地充当户外实验室的毕业设计。
• For the class entering in fall 2025, Cal Poly admitted 22,956 students from a record 81,910 applicants, an acceptance rate of 28 percent that places it among the more selective public universities in California2025 年秋季入学的新生中，加州理工从创纪录的 81910 名申请者中录取了 22956 人，录取率为 28%，在加州公立大学中属于选拔性较强的一档。
• Applicants must declare a major when they apply and are admitted competitively by major, while students who later switch fields must follow a published change-of-major plan that usually requires a grade point average between 2.5 and 2.75申请者在递交材料时必须申报专业，学校按专业择优录取；日后转专业的学生则须遵循公开的转专业方案，通常要求平均绩点在 2.5 至 2.75 之间。
• Transfer admission is equally competitive, with 2,040 of 10,432 applicants accepted for fall 2024, an acceptance rate of 19.5 percent, and the incoming freshman class that year was roughly half women and half men转学录取同样竞争激烈，2024 年秋季共有 10432 人申请、2040 人被录取，录取率 19.5%，当年入学的新生男女比例大致各半。
• For 2024-2025 the middle 50 percent of enrolled students scored between 1240 and 1460 on the SAT, with a median of 1350, including 610 to 740 on evidence-based reading and writing and 630 to 780 on mathematics2024 至 2025 学年，在校生 SAT 成绩的中间 50% 区间为 1240 至 1460 分，中位数 1350 分，其中阅读与写作 610 至 740 分，数学 630 至 780 分。
• The Noyce School of Applied Computing, created in 2022, groups the electrical engineering, computer engineering and software engineering departments and is intended to feed California's hardware and software industries2022 年成立的诺伊斯应用计算学院把电气工程系、计算机工程系和软件工程系归入同一学院，旨在为加州的硬件与软件产业输送人才。
• Administratively the university is divided into Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Administration and Finance, and University Advancement, with Academic Affairs overseeing the six colleges, the library and research and graduate programmes在行政上，学校分为学术事务、学生事务、行政与财务、大学发展四个部门，其中学术事务部统管六个学院、图书馆以及科研与研究生项目。
• Cal Poly Partners, a public-benefit nonprofit founded in 1940, provides commercial and fiscal support to the campus, having been known as the Cal Poly Foundation until 2006 and the Cal Poly Corporation until 2024加州理工伙伴公司是一家成立于 1940 年的公益非营利机构，为校园提供商业与财务支持，其名称在 2006 年前为加州理工基金会，2024 年前为加州理工公司。
• The Cal Poly Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charity, administers tax-deductible gifts and campus endowments, while Associated Students Inc. runs student government with an annual operating budget above 12 million dollars加州理工基金会是 501(c)(3) 慈善机构，负责管理可抵税捐赠与校园捐赠基金；学生联合会公司则运营学生自治事务，年度运营预算超过 1200 万美元。
• Associated Students Inc. manages the University Union, the Recreation Center, the Sports Complex and the Children's Center, a portfolio of more than 450,000 square feet of campus facilities学生联合会公司管理大学联盟楼、康乐中心、体育综合馆和儿童中心，所辖校园设施面积超过 45 万平方英尺。
• Cal Poly Extended, Professional and Continuing Education, known as EPaCE, opens degree, certificate and professional development courses to working adults who are not enrolled in the residential programmes加州理工扩展与专业继续教育部门简称 EPaCE，面向未注册全日制项目的在职成年人提供学位、证书与职业发展课程。
• The Robert E. Kennedy Library, named for the president who led Cal Poly from 1967 to 1979, anchors the academic core of the campus beside the University Union and Dexter Lawn罗伯特·E. 肯尼迪图书馆得名于 1967 年至 1979 年间执掌加州理工的校长，位于校园学术核心区，毗邻大学联盟楼与德克斯特草坪。

Campus

• Cal Poly sits in an unincorporated part of San Luis Obispo County just outside the city limits, with a San Luis Obispo postal address, and the Census Bureau treats the campus as a separate census-designated place that counted 8,583 residents in 2020加州理工位于圣路易斯-奥比斯波县未建制地区、紧邻城市边界，通讯地址写作圣路易斯-奥比斯波；美国人口普查局把校园单列为普查指定地区，2020 年统计人口为 8583 人。
• Its 9,967.6 parcel acres comprise the main campus, two agricultural landholdings and two sites in Santa Cruz County, making it one of California's largest land-holding universities学校 9967.6 英亩的地块包括主校区、两处农业用地以及圣克鲁斯县的两处场地，是加州占地规模最大的大学之一。
• The Swanton Pacific Ranch, a 3,200-acre property in Santa Cruz County, supplies rangeland, livestock and forestry operations for the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences and embodies the Learn by Doing method位于圣克鲁斯县的斯旺顿太平洋牧场占地 3200 英亩，为农业、食品与环境科学学院提供放牧、畜牧与林业教学场所，也是「在实践中学习」理念的具体体现。
• The Warren J. Baker Center for Science and Mathematics was dedicated on 1 November 2013, a 119 million dollar, six-storey building of 189,000 square feet that replaced the ageing Science Building 52沃伦·J. 贝克科学与数学中心于 2013 年 11 月 1 日启用，造价 1.19 亿美元、共六层、面积 18.9 万平方英尺，取代了老旧的 52 号科学楼。
• The William and Linda Frost Center for Research and Innovation, dedicated on 5 May 2023, added 102,000 square feet of interdisciplinary laboratories for the science, agriculture and liberal arts colleges威廉与琳达·弗罗斯特研究与创新中心于 2023 年 5 月 5 日启用，新增 10.2 万平方英尺的跨学科实验室，供科学、农业与人文学院共用。
• On-campus housing totals 6,239 spaces, the largest student housing programme in the California State University system, spread across 28 residence halls arranged in five groups that include the Cerro Vista Apartments and Poly Canyon Village校内住宿共有 6239 个床位，是加州州立大学系统中规模最大的学生住宿项目，分布在 28 栋宿舍楼内，按五个组团布局，其中包括塞罗维斯塔公寓和波利峡谷村。
• A freshman community completed in summer 2018 at Slack Street and Grand Avenue added 1,475 beds in seven three-to-five-storey concrete buildings, together with a four-level parking structure and a café2018 年夏季在斯莱克街与格兰德大道交汇处建成的新生社区，以七栋三至五层混凝土建筑新增 1475 个床位，并配套一座四层停车楼和一间咖啡馆。
• The Leaning Pine Arboretum on the north side of campus is maintained by students and displays plants from the world's five Mediterranean climate zones, supported by a one million dollar gift received in 2022校园北侧的斜松植物园由学生维护，收集展示来自全球五个地中海气候区的植物，2022 年获得一笔 100 万美元捐赠支持。
• Parking is constrained, with 8,648 spaces in total, while more than 7,000 bike rack spaces and 252 secure bike lockers serve a community in which about 57 percent of students lived within five miles of campus in 2019校园停车位有限，总计 8648 个；与此同时，7000 多个自行车架位和 252 个安全自行车柜服务于这样一个群体：2019 年约有 57% 的学生住在距校园五英里以内。
• University House serves as the president's residence, and the campus core is ringed by the open space of Poly Canyon and the hills that separate San Luis Obispo from the Pacific coast大学之家是校长官邸，校园核心区四周被波利峡谷的开阔地带以及分隔圣路易斯-奥比斯波与太平洋海岸的丘陵环绕。

Reputation

• QS placed Cal Poly in the 1401+ band of its 2027 World University Rankings, the joint final band that QS publishes for institutions outside the individually numbered positions在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，加州理工位列 1401+ 区间，这是 QS 为未进入单独编号名次的院校公布的并列末段区间。
• Cal Poly did not appear in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and it was not included in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list or the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities加州理工未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单以及 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• U.S. News ranked Cal Poly first among public regional universities in the Western United States for the 33rd consecutive year in its 2025 edition, and also named it the best overall master's-level university in the West for the third year running在 2025 年版 U.S. News 排名中，加州理工连续第 33 年位居美国西部公立地区性大学第一，并连续第三年获评西部整体最佳硕士层次大学。
• In the same 2025 U.S. News subject tables the university placed fifth for engineering programmes without a doctorate, first for computer engineering and second for aerospace, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering在同一份 2025 年 U.S. News 学科榜单中，学校在没有博士学位的工程项目中排名第五，计算机工程第一，航空航天、土木、电气与机械工程均列第二。
• U.S. News also placed Cal Poly first for most innovative schools and for best colleges for veterans, second for undergraduate teaching and seventh for best value among regional universities in the WestU.S. News 还把加州理工列为西部最具创新性学校第一、退伍军人最佳院校第一、本科教学第二、最具价值第七。
• The Wall Street Journal and College Pulse ranked Cal Poly 28th among all American colleges and universities for 2026, public and private alike, while Forbes placed it 55th overall and 16th among public universities in 2026《华尔街日报》与 College Pulse 的 2026 年榜单把加州理工列为全美公私立大学第 28 名，福布斯 2026 年榜单则把它列为全美第 55 名、公立大学第 16 名。
• PayScale's 2025 Best Value Colleges ranking, based on return on investment, placed Cal Poly 36th out of 1,978 institutions, and Money awarded it five out of five stars in its 2025 Best Colleges listPayScale 基于投资回报的 2025 年最具价值大学排名把加州理工列在 1978 所院校中的第 36 位，Money 杂志 2025 年最佳大学榜单则给予其五星中的五星评价。
• DesignIntelligence ranked Cal Poly's undergraduate architecture programme third in the nation in its America's Best Architecture and Design Schools survey, with landscape architecture sixth nationally and first in the western region在 DesignIntelligence 的「美国最佳建筑与设计学院」调查中，加州理工本科建筑学排名全美第三，景观设计全美第六、西部第一。
• The Institute of International Education ranked Cal Poly first among master's-level American universities for study abroad offerings in 2025, reflecting a tradition of international programmes built into undergraduate degrees国际教育协会 2025 年把加州理工列为美国硕士层次大学海外学习项目的第一名，反映出该校把国际项目嵌入本科教育的传统。
• Cal Poly counts more than 150,000 living alumni, concentrated in San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara and Los Angeles counties, a network that supports its reputation for employable graduates in engineering and agriculture加州理工在世校友超过 15 万人，主要集中在圣路易斯-奥比斯波、圣克拉拉和洛杉矶三县，这一网络支撑了该校工程与农业毕业生就业力强的声誉。

Student life

• Cal Poly's motto is "Learn by Doing", rendered on the university seal in Latin as Discere Faciendo, and the phrase shapes laboratory teaching, studio culture and the compulsory senior project加州理工的校训是「在实践中学习」，在校徽上以拉丁文 Discere Faciendo 呈现，这句话塑造了实验教学、设计工作室文化以及必修的毕业设计。
• The Week of Welcome, known as WOW, began in 1956 and is now described by the university as the largest volunteer orientation programme in the United States, run by current students each September迎新周简称 WOW，始于 1956 年，如今被学校称为全美最大的志愿者迎新项目，每年 9 月由在校学生组织。
• WOW places freshmen in groups of 10 to 12 and transfer students in groups of 40 to 60, each led by two student orientation leaders, and its 2010 media section won a National Orientation Directors Association awardWOW 把新生编成 10 至 12 人的小组、转学生编成 40 至 60 人的小组，每组由两名学生迎新辅导员带领，其 2010 年的媒体作品曾获全国迎新指导者协会奖项。
• Cal Poly recognises more than 400 clubs and independent student organisations, ranging from engineering teams such as PolySat and CubeSat to a perennial Rose Parade float design programme加州理工认可 400 多个社团与独立学生组织，既有 PolySat、CubeSat 等工程团队，也有常年参加玫瑰花车游行的花车设计项目。
• Greek letter organisations have existed on campus since 1949, and fraternities and sororities remain part of the residential and social landscape alongside the university's residence hall communities希腊字母社团自 1949 年起就在校园存在，兄弟会与姐妹会至今仍与学校宿舍社区一起构成住宿与社交生活的一部分。
• Cal Poly fields 20 varsity sports, ten for men and ten for women, competing in NCAA Division I, mostly in the Big West Conference, with football in the Big Sky Conference and wrestling in the Pac-12加州理工设有 20 支校队，男、女各 10 支，参加 NCAA 一级联赛，多数项目属于大西部联盟，橄榄球参加大天空联盟，摔跤参加太平洋十二校联盟。
• The Mustangs won 35 NCAA Division II national team championships before the move to Division I in 1994, a record that still frames the university's self-image as a small-programme overachiever在 1994 年转入一级联赛之前，「野马」队共赢得 35 项 NCAA 二级联赛全国团体冠军，这一纪录至今仍塑造着学校以小型项目取得超常成绩的自我认知。
• The university has two mascots, Musty the Mustang and Chase, a live mustang named after Margaret Chase, the acting president of 1924, and the Mustang Marching Band of more than 200 members performs at football, basketball and volleyball games学校有两个吉祥物：野马「马斯蒂」和以 1924 年代理校长玛格丽特·蔡斯命名的活体野马「蔡斯」；200 多人的野马行进乐队在橄榄球、篮球和排球比赛中演出。
• The Battle for the Golden Horseshoe is the annual football rivalry with the UC Davis Aggies, and campus radio station KCPR, launched in 1968, still broadcasts music and student programming from the lower campus「金马蹄」之争是加州理工与加州大学戴维斯分校「农夫」队之间的年度橄榄球对抗赛；1968 年开播的校园电台 KCPR 至今仍在下校区播出音乐与学生节目。

Notable people

• Myron Angel, the journalist and promoter who campaigned for a polytechnic school in San Luis Obispo, is commonly credited as the founder who secured the 1901 legislative charter记者兼地方推动者迈伦·安杰尔因游说在圣路易斯-奥比斯波设立理工学校而被普遍视为创办人，他促成了 1901 年的立法授权。
• Julian McPhee served as president from 1933 to 1966, rescued the campus from a proposed conversion into a state prison and oversaw its transformation into a degree-granting college朱利安·麦克菲自 1933 年至 1966 年担任校长，使校园免于被改建成州立监狱的方案，并主导其转变为可授予学位的学院。
• Margaret Chase served as acting president in 1924, the only woman to lead the institution before the modern era, and the live mustang mascot Chase carries her name玛格丽特·蔡斯于 1924 年担任代理校长，是近代之前唯一领导该校的女性，活体野马吉祥物「蔡斯」即以她命名。
• Robert E. Kennedy presided from 1967 to 1979, a period that produced the Master of Science degree authority and the library that now bears his name罗伯特·E. 肯尼迪于 1967 年至 1979 年任校长，这一时期学校获得理学硕士学位授予权，如今的图书馆也以他的名字命名。
• Warren J. Baker led Cal Poly from 1979 to 2010, the longest modern presidency, and the science centre dedicated in 2013 was named in his honour沃伦·J. 贝克从 1979 年至 2010 年执掌加州理工，是近代任期最长的校长，2013 年启用的科学中心即以他命名。
• Jeffrey D. Armstrong became the ninth permanent president on 1 February 2011, arriving from Michigan State University, and his tenure has included the Frost gift and the Cal Maritime merger杰弗里·D. 阿姆斯特朗于 2011 年 2 月 1 日就任第九任正式校长，此前任职于密歇根州立大学，其任内经历了弗罗斯特捐赠与加州海事学院合并。
• Al Yankovic, the parody musician and comedian known as "Weird Al", studied architecture at Cal Poly before turning to recording, and remains one of its most quoted alumni以「怪人阿尔」闻名的恶搞音乐人兼喜剧演员阿尔·扬科维奇曾在加州理工学习建筑，后转向唱片事业，至今仍是被引用最多的校友之一。
• John Madden, the Pro Football Hall of Fame coach and broadcaster, played and studied at Cal Poly, and the university's football tradition still invokes his name职业橄榄球名人堂教练兼评论员约翰·马登曾在加州理工学习并打球，学校的橄榄球传统至今仍会提到他的名字。
• Burt Rutan, the aerospace engineer who designed SpaceShipOne, graduated from Cal Poly's aeronautical engineering programme and became a central figure in private spaceflight设计「太空船一号」的航空航天工程师伯特·鲁坦毕业于加州理工航空工程专业，后来成为私人航天领域的核心人物。
• Victor Glover, a NASA astronaut selected in 2013 who piloted the Artemis II mission, earned his bachelor's degree in general engineering at Cal Poly in 19992013 年入选的美国宇航局宇航员维克托·格洛弗曾驾驶「阿耳忒弥斯二号」任务，他于 1999 年在加州理工获得通用工程学士学位。
• Tory Bruno, former president and chief executive of United Launch Alliance, and Peter Oppenheimer, former chief financial officer of Apple, are both Cal Poly graduates who rose to lead major technology and aerospace companies联合发射联盟前总裁兼首席执行官托里·布鲁诺与苹果公司前首席财务官彼得·奥本海默都是加州理工校友，后来执掌重要的科技与航空航天企业。
• Ozzie Smith, the Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop, and Abel Maldonado, a former lieutenant governor of California, studied at Cal Poly, as did Devin Nunes, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives棒球名人堂游击手奥齐·史密斯与加州前副州长阿贝尔·马尔多纳多都曾就读于加州理工，前美国众议员德文·努内斯也是该校校友。