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Located in Orange County, the California State University Fullerton is one of 23 California State University campuses and boasts one of its largest student bodies. It offers more than 240 different degree programs to its 38,000 students, including studies in art, business, chemistry, computer science, dance, engineering, music, education and theatre.

The University of California Fullerton campus has a distinctly futuristic look in its architecture, much of which was designed in the late 1960s by Howard van Heuklyn. He was heavily influenced by the Googie architecture of surrounding Fullerton, which is also exhibited at the Hope International University just to the south of the campus. In more recent years the California State University Fullerton has added the Titan Student Union, University Hall, Grand Central Art Center and Pollak Library buildings, and expanded into satellite campuses at Irvine, Downtown Santa Ana and Garden Grove. The main campus is home to the Fullerton Arboretum which has played an important role in breeding the Titan Arum plant, also known as the “corpse flower”, famed for its immense inflorescence and pungent smell. The university’s academics are organised within eight colleges, including Colleges of the Arts, Business and Economics, Communications, Education, Engineering and Computer Science, Health and Human Development, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

The California State University Fullerton is located just to the north-east of Fullerton’s Downtown area, from where there are train connections to Southern California. Public buses stop along State College Boulevard which runs along the western edge of the campus, and most college buildings are within an easy walk of here.

Originally named Orange County State College, the University of California was built on a former citrus grove and began classes in September 1959. It underwent two name changes before officially becoming the California State University Fullerton in 1972 and has undergone significant expansion in the last two decades regarding both curriculum and infrastructure.