And there are plans to offer training in viticulture, hospitality and biotech to serve some of the region’s major industries. The Temecula program - in which all classes are taught by regular CSUSM faculty - currently offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in nursing and kinesiology, with the business degrees to come. CSUSM started out by offering one degree, an accelerated bachelor’s degree in nursing. The city helped the university find space in an office park and paid for the needed improvements. We sat down with them to figure out how we could do more. “Cal State San Marcos was out here teaching limited course offerings. “We believe higher education is the foundation for economic development. “About four or five years ago, our City Council really made higher education its top goal,” said Aaron Adams, Temecula’s assistant city manager. “Not having to crash classes, no waiting lists, that makes a big difference.”ĬSUSM has offered some classes in Temecula on an irregular basis since 1999, but the degree granting program is less than three yeas old. They can’t promise you that in San Marcos,” said Scofield, who is getting a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology. 1, we’re promised we’ll have a bachelor’s degree in two years. “Unit-wise, it’s more expensive, sure,” said Sasha Scofield, 24, who moved from La Mesa to Temecula after getting accepted by the campus. The same course work at CSUSM would be $19,788. And we are working with the city, the business community and the health care community to see what other programs they would like us to offer.”ĬSUSM’s Temecula campus is the only university outpost between San Marcos, Orange County, Riverside and San Bernardino.īy way of example, the cost of a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology at the Temecula campus is $24,162. “Next fall we’ll be adding a bachelor’s in business administration and a master’s in business administration. “We’ll be adding more degree programs, more certificate programs,” said Suzanne Lingold, CSUSM’s associate dean of extended learning, who oversees the campus. But annual growth of 20 percent is projected over the next five years, with unspecified expansion anticipated well after that. There will be only a little more than 200 students on campus, which offers only upper division and graduate courses, on the first day of classes. When classes begin later this month at the satellite branch of California State University San Marcos here, the student body will be twice as large as it was in the fall semester of 2010 and approximately four times the size of the inaugural class that entered in January 2009.
At a time when most of California’s public colleges and universities are cutting back to deal with sharp funding reductions, at least one small campus is rapidly expanding.
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