Business & Professional Services

Find more information about the economic impact of the CSU’s business and professional services programs.

With California's ever-growing business and professional services sector, it is important to have an educational system to support that growth. This sector is all the more relevant because it contributes to other sectors in the economy. One out of every five CSU graduates in 2009 completed a bachelor's degree in business/management. Furthermore, 54 percent of all business bachelor's degrees awarded in California in 2007 were earned at the CSU, underscoring the CSU's vital role in supplying our state's workforce. Many interdisciplinary majors involving business concepts were developed as a result of input from industry partners.

SF State is a major training ground for lawyers and lawmakers in California. It ranks 18th among the top 20 undergraduate schools whose alumni go on to be admitted to the State Bar. Many attorneys who trace their undergraduate years to San Francisco State have advanced to holding public office.

Notable CSU Graduates in Business & Professional Services

Mike Abary	Robert Bouttier	Kerrick W. Bubb	Sean Callahan
Dale Carlsen	JoAnn Copperud	Gary Cushing	Erik Groset
Scott Hanson	Erica Hiller Harrop	Bill Imada	Capt. Lynn D. Korwatch
Andrew Ly	Louis P. Miramontes	Tara-Nicholle Nelson	Charles Noski
Melissa Poole	Terrence J. Roberts	Elsa A. Romero	Ravi Sawhney
Eddie Scher	Victor Stenger Tanon	Jean M. Stephens	John Strisower
Bob Teague	Larry Twersky	Milton G. Valera	Mahvash Yazdi

Choose a category below to view alumni recognized for their contributions to California's key industries: