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San Francisco Bay University

Fremont, CA · City · 126 students
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Graduation rate
70% typical
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Earnings 10 years on
$97,827 typical
96%
Acceptance rate
Applied for fall 2024
77% typical · not scored
About

San Francisco Bay University (SFBU) in Fremont, California, is best known for offering affordable, career-focused degree programs directly tailored to the needs of the surrounding Silicon Valley tech ecosystem. Its strongest academic offerings center on practical undergraduate and graduate programs in computer science, electrical engineering, and business administration. Student life at SFBU is multicultural, tight-knit, and highly driven toward professional growth, benefiting from small class sizes and direct mentorship from industry-experienced faculty. A key distinguishing feature of the university is its exceptional commitment to educational access, highlighted by unusually generous financial aid initiatives that offer full-tuition grants to eligible local and low-income students.


Wikipedia:San Francisco Bay University, formerly Northwestern Polytechnic University, is a private, nonprofit university in Fremont, California, United States. Founded in 1984, the university awards bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science, engineering, technology and management programs.

Location
Fremont, CA, 94539 · City campus
✈
Nearest airport from college
SJC · San Jose
8 mi away
Cost & aid
Cost of attendance
These figures are federal data and may be out of date.
YoursEveryone
Tuition & fees$8,830
Housing & food (on campus)$10,700
Books & supplies$1,200
Same price for all students
Tuition & fees$8,830
Housing & food (on campus)$10,700
Books & supplies$1,200
Outcomes
Completion
Back for yr 2
72%
8 yrs after starting · first-time, full-time students
25% graduated · 50% transferred · 25% left or unknown · none still enrolled
Admissions
Getting in · applied for fall 2024
Admit rate
96%
Test policy
Not required
Per College Scorecard

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Essay prompts

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Student Body
Gender
Men 59%Women 41%
Who enrolls
Faculty ratio
10 : 1
Pell grant
0%
Part-time
2%
Race & ethnicity
White
3%
Hispanic
5%
Black
3%
Asian
6%
Non-resident
70%
AI/AN
1%
NH/PI
1%
Unknown
11%
Varsity sports

No data. This school isn't in the U.S. Department of Education's athletics (EADA) file, so we can't list its teams. That doesn't mean it has none.

Institutional
Resources
Full-time faculty
13%
Faculty salary
$8,144/mo
Teaching spend
$6,015
per student
Federal loans
0%
Classification
Carnegie type
Special focus — engineering & technology
Undergraduate profile
Four-year, more selective admissions

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