Description California State University, Fresno -- commonly known as Fresno State -- is one of 23 member institutions in the California State University System, one of the largest higher education systems in the world. It enrolls more than 22,000 students, who pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in dozens of subject areas. It has more than 1,200 faculty members. The university consists of nine academic schools and divisions: agricultural sciences and technology, arts and humanities, business, education and human development, engineering, health and human services, science and math, social sciences, and global and continuing education. Fresno State was founded in 1911 as Fresno State Normal School.
Fresno State has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 353 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Fresno State employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 79% of employees would recommend working at Fresno State to a friend. This is based on 353 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
78% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Fresno State as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Fresno State.