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Choose Cal State East Bay!

Graduate Student

Fall 2025 Admitted Students Meeting will begin at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time

Feel free to drop a greeting in the chat!

#ForeverPioneer

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Choose Cal State East Bay!

Tips for a Successful Virtual Experience via Zoom:

  1. Update your profile name (no nicknames, please)
  2. This meeting will be recorded
  3. Enable live transcriptions
  4. Drop your questions in the chat!
  5. If you get disconnected prior to end of the session, log back in with same link to continue
  6. If you experience technical difficulties during the session, please email gradstudies@csueastbay.edu. We will follow up after the meeting.

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Dr. Kevin Brown

Director

Graduate Studies

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video: time to rise!

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Why Go to Graduate School?

  • Job Opportunities
    • Some positions require a graduate degree
  • Career Advancement
    • Bachelor has become entry-level degree
    • Higher-level positions and decision-making power require education beyond undergraduate
  • Career Change
    • New discipline or specialization within existing discipline

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Why Go to Graduate School?

  • Some positions require a Master’s degree
    • Education Administrators (ex. Principal)
    • Statisticians/Mathematicians
    • Epidemiologists
    • Counselors (Most types)
    • Social Workers (Mental Health and Healthcare)
    • Librarians
    • Physician’s Assistants and Nurse Practitioners
    • Speech Language Pathologists
    • Genetic Counselors

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Why Go to Graduate School?

  • Job Opportunities
    • Some positions require a graduate degree
  • Career Advancement
    • Bachelor has become entry-level degree
    • Higher-level positions and decision-making power require education beyond undergraduate
  • Career Change
    • New discipline or specialization within existing discipline

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Why Go to Graduate School?

    • Because you want to
      • Opportunity to learn about things that interest you most!
    • Research opportunities
      • Access to advanced equipment and tools
        • Research Equipment
    • Upgrade your education
      • If it has been a while since you completed your undergrad degree
    • Employer incentives

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Mr. David Cox

MBA Business

Administration

Graduate Student Experience

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Experience at CSUEB

  • CSUEB MBAAACSB-accredited, alongside elite peers (Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, MIT, Yale, and Cornell)
  • Affordable Tuition
    • 32k to 51K at CSUEB MBA
    • 159K at Stanford MBA
    • 146K at UC Berkeley MBA
    • 169K at Yale MBA
  • Organizations
    • FEISV, IIA, ALPFA
    • Networking, regulatory updates, and trends.�

Why I chose CSUEB?

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Research Experience

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video: MSBA student tips

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video: MSCS student CPT experience

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Why Choose Cal State East Bay?

  • Academic Excellence with Economic Value
  • Priced among most affordable public universities
  • Private College Environment- small class sizes, personalized learning
  • One of most diverse universities in the U.S.
  • You’ll love California’s mild weather, multicultural communities, internship opportunities and job prospects after graduation

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Location: City = Hayward

  • In San Francisco Bay Area
  • 37 km to San Francisco city
  • 42 km to Silicon Valley
  • Safe living & learning environment
  • Campus overlooks the San Francisco Bay

Location & Weather

Weather:

  • Mediterranean climate (mild winter/cool summer)
  • Summer: average temperature 15-25°C
  • Winter: average temperature 5-15°C

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Why Choose Cal State East Bay?

  • Wide variety of programs

  • Many grad programs have late afternoon, evening, weekend classes

  • Hybrid and online instruction (subject to F-1 enrollment requirements)

  • Courses in many programs meet one night per week

  • Small class sizes

Personal

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Why Choose Cal State East Bay?

  • Ph.D. Full-Time Faculty

  • Outstanding Practitioner Faculty

  • Regionally Accredited University

  • Professional accreditations (AACSB, ABET, etc.)

Professional

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Why Choose Cal State East Bay?

  • Master’s Degrees: $9,107

(FT for academic year)

  • Teacher Credentials: $8,561 (FT for academic year)

  • Graduate Business Prof. Fee:

$285 per unit (MBA, MS BA)

  • Doctorate Fee: $14,045 (academic year, 3-year program)

  • Non-resident fee: $420 per unit

Achievable

  • Most Programs Can Be Completed in 2 Years or Less
  • Affordable Costs
  • Fees subject to change

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Why Choose CSUEB? Career Development

Career Empowerment Center https://careercenter.csueastbay.edu office on campus with career counselors and links to exclusive resources, including:

Big Interview https://csueastbay.biginterview.com Interviewing resources including mock interviews

https://www.cacareerzone.org/quick Self-assessment tools to discover career paths that

align with personal strengths and goals; get matched with suitable occupations, find detailed

information about each career including education requirements, salary ranges, etc.

https://www.csueastbay.edu/ocpd/linkedin-learning.htm Skill development platform

https://app.jobscan.co/auth/sso/csueastbay.edu/login Helps job seekers improve their

resumes for applicant tracking systems (ATS) and find jobs more efficiently

https://csueastbay.joinhandshake.com/login Search for on campus jobs & internships

https://www.onetonline.org/ Database about occupations and workers in the U.S.

https://www.interstride.com Online platform specifically designed to help international

students find jobs and internships, navigate the US immigration landscape, and connect

with companies that are known to sponsor work visas

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Why Choose CSUEB? Practical Training

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Why Choose CSUEB? Practical Training

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Student Unions- place to meet, eat, relax

GameZone (in old Union)-

  • Indoor recreational room with pool tables, air hockey, & basketball free throw games, etc.
  • GameCave- a custom video gaming room
  • Equipment Rental counter also has board games

Student Life and Leadership Programs-

  • 100+ recognized clubs/organizations

Associated Students, Inc.- student government and event organizers (movie nights, comedians, etc.)

NCAA Division II Athletics- 6 men’s & 8 women’s sports teams- cheer on your fellow Pioneers!

Student Life on Campus

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Student Life on Campus - Fitness

Recreation and Wellness (RAW) Center

Free services for matriculated students:

  • indoor track
  • cardiovascular equipment
  • strength training equipment & boxing bags
  • group fitness classes
  • locker rooms with private showers
  • basketball gym

Other Sports facilities on campus:

Swimming pool, soccer field, tennis courts, baseball field, gymnasium (basketball, volleyball/badminton courts)

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Graduate Student Acccomplishments

Flying High: How Three Graduate Students Plan to Modernize Air Traffic Control

Of the many opportunities students can find at Cal State East Bay, among them are challenges free from the pressure of a graded course. One example of this, and the success you can find when you give it a shot, is the FAA-TFM-AID. This challenge, available to college students across the country and hosted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), stands for the Federal Aviation Administration Traffic Flow Management Application Integration Design Challenge​. The goal? To design the new layout for the FAA’s traffic flow manager, a system meant to manage all the different factors required to keep planes in the air and landing smoothly, with less strain for the air traffic controllers.

Of the finalists of this challenge, three of Cal State East Bay’s own Pioneers were chosen to present their work, known as the AVA dashboard, in Washington D.C. on June 28. The group, led by Associate Professor of Art Ian Pollock, is composed of the graduate student creators Ferdi Augusta, Jonathan Crescenzo and Patrice Reynolds. Together, they are hoping to create the newest flight management system which the FAA may use across the country.

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Ms. Laura Perry

International Partnerships Coordinator

International Admissions next steps

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Accepting Your Offer of Admission

  • Know your NetID and password

Problems? Contact servicedesk@csueastbay.edu

          • Set up your Horizon Email

  • Check the status of your application on MyCSUEB

  • Guide to accept your offer of admission

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Accepting Your Offer of Admission

  • Log into MyCSUEB: https://www.csueastbay.edu/mycsueb/
  • Choose the Admissions tile
  • Select “Accept Admission” link

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Transcripts Hold

Provisionally Admitted Students

Submit official documents to the

International Admissions Office as follows: 

  • By Mail/Courier: Send to the International Admissions Office, Cal State East Bay, 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., SF102, Hayward, CA 94542. 
  • Electronic Transcripts/Mark Sheets and Degree Certificates:  Please email the documents to IAOoffdocuments@csueastbay.edu. The documents must be sent directly from the institution’s registrar’s office or office of examinations. The International Admissions Office reserves the right to verify the sender of these documents before accepting them as official. 
  • In Person Drop Off: Hand-delivered in a sealed envelope from the institution to Cal State East Bay’s International Admissions Office located in the Student and Faculty Support building on the Hayward Campus in SF102. 

Your provisional admission will not be cleared until you meet all university requirements.  

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Insurance Hold

  • Health insurance is Mandatory for all F-1 students in the US and there are few exceptions to the CSUEB-sponsored plan which can be purchased via CIE website.
    • If you have US-based employer-sponsored insurance or insurance provided by a government-sponsored scholarship program, see the CIE website for instructions on requesting approval for these policies: www.csueastbay.edu/cie/f-1-students/new-students/insurance.html
        • Be sure to always check the term for which your hold is placed.

  • Holds are moved 24-48 hours after you complete your purchase; plan accordingly! The hold will never go away, but will automatically move to the next term.
  • Questions? Contact csuebhealthinsurance@csueastbay.edu

The Start Date shows the date the hold was created by the system- this date does not matter

The Start Term shows the term your hold is for. If it says, “Begin Term Srvc Indicator,” the hold is for your first term. Once you have cleared this hold, it will show future term dates (e.g. Summer 2025, Fall 2025, etc)

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Registering for Classes

    • Check MyCSUEB “To Do List” to complete required items which may include submission of documents or test scores.

    • Check MyCSUEB for any possible registration holds.

Transcript, insurance holds are common for grads

    • Review the “important dateswebpage for enrollment periods
      • Open enrollment began April 22, 2025.
      • First day of classes is August 19th, 2025.

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Registering for Classes

    • In MyCSUEB, choose “Manage Classes” tile to search for and enroll in classes.

    • First search for classes

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What is next?

Events for Grad Students

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  • The Office of Graduate Studies will host a Graduate Student Orientation on Friday, August 15th, via zoom and in-person, the week before Fall semester begins. Students on-campus may attend in UU MPR. More information and registration is available on the orientation site: https://www.csueastbay.edu/orientation/graduatepost-bac/new-graduate-orientation.html

  • Your Academic Department may also offer a program-specific orientation.  Check your horizon email or contact your academic department or your program’s graduate coordinator for more information.

Not sure who your graduate advisor is?

See the Graduate Program Directory for Faculty Coordinators in each department:

www.csueastbay.edu/graduate-studies/graduate-program-directory.html

Graduate Orientation and Advising

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Thank you for participating in our

“Choose Cal State East Bay”

event!

GO PIONEERS!

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Still have questions? Now is the time!

Type your question in the Q&A.

gradstudies@csueastbay.edu

https://www.csueastbay.edu/aps/graduate-studies/graduate-program-directory.html