SF State College of Science & Engineering

The College of Science & Engineering (CoSE) is home to more than 400 faculty and staff members, including 182 tenured and tenure-track faculty and more than 6,000 students in eight departments and one school. CoSE also provides foundational education to students crossing the entirety of San Francisco State University. Our Mission CoSE provides an encouraging environment to develop the intellectual capacity, critical thinking, creativity and problem solving ability of its students so that they may become honorable, contributing and forward-thinking members of the science and engineering community of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. CoSE fosters a thriving environment for scholarly and creative activities so that new knowledge or solutions to problems are discovered or created and provides science education to all students in the University so that they may be equipped to succeed in the modern world. Our Vision CoSE is committed to offering students an academic experience of "thinking, learning and doing." The best way to provide this experience is through involving students in research and the solution of real world problems. Thus, teaching and research are mutually supportive and one cannot excel without the other. Faculty and students conduct research together in topics spanning a broad range of theoretical and applied topics on projects supported by a variety of funding sources, including foundations, companies, state and local governments and a broad range of federal funding agencies. CoSE is committed to serve a student population that reflects the diversity of the region and includes many international students. The College supports a number of programs designed to encourage and support all students to pursue careers in science and engineering. The College is committed support and retain a diverse group of faculty, staff, and students, both domestic and international.