The four-year graduation rate for the Class of 2025 was Cal Poly’s best in at least 20 years. It was also No. 1 in the CSU.

Students are back at Cal Poly. The first 20 students arrived in 1903 and eight of them graduated in 1906. Last year — 118 years later — 6,312 students graduated during six commencement ceremonies.

By Matthew Becerra, January 20, 2026 Students from Cal Poly Pomona and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo came together over the past several months to turn steel, foam and flowers into a Rose Parade float ...

That project also helped launch Cal Poly’s new computer science capstone sequence. Over fall and winter quarters, seven students partnered with Wheeler, under the guidance of faculty lecturer BJ ...