California State University, Bakersfield-Antelope Valley

California State University, Bakersfield

Former names	California State College, Bakersfield (1965–82)
Motto	It's your university...
Type	Public
Established	1965
Endowment	$21.6 million (2016)
President	Horace Mitchell
Academic staff	370 [Fall 2012]
Administrative staff	497 [Fall 2012]
Students	9,341 (Fall 2016)
Undergraduates	8,093 (Fall 2016)
Postgraduates	1,248 (Fall 2016)
Location	Bakersfield, California, United States
Campus	Suburban, 375 acres (152 ha)
Colors	Blue and Gold
Athletics	NCAA Division I – Western Athletic
Nickname	Roadrunners
Affiliations	Cal State System
Website	www.csub.edu

California State University, Bakersfield (often abbreviated CSUB or shortened to CSU Bakersfield) is a public university located in Bakersfield, California, United States, and was founded in 1965. CSUB opened in 1970 on a 375-acre (152 ha) campus, becoming the 19th school in the 23-campus California State University system. The university offers 91 different Bachelor's degrees, 20 types of Master's degrees, and 12 teaching credentials. The university does not confer Doctoral degrees.

In the Fall 2016 academic quarter,9,341 undergraduate and graduate students attended CSUB, at either the main campus in Bakersfield or the satellite campus, Antelope Valley Center in Lancaster, California. The university is a heavily dominated commuter campus serving the city of Bakersfield. CSU Bakersfield's petroleum geology program is the only one offered by a public university west of the Rockies.

CSUB owes its founding to the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960, which formalized the creation of the CSU system, initially as the "California State Colleges" system. The areas in the southern San Joaquin Valley had been demanding a four-year university since the 1950s. After considering several locations, including nearby Delano and parts of Kings and Tulare County, a steering committee decided on Bakersfield because at the time it was the largest isolated metropolitan area in the United States without a four-year university. Their decision was turned into a bill by Bakersfield's State Senator Walter W. Stiern, ratified by the California State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Pat Brown.