Mission As California's premier public undergraduate institution, SSU has a commitment to graduating students who have the ability to think critically and ethically and can use information technology. The faculty and staff provide collaborative relationships with students and an education that fosters ethical exploration, civic engagement, social responsibility, and global awareness combined with a solid foundation in an academic discipline. SSU is proudly a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).
Description SSU strives to create a campus climate in which the desire to build trust among people is widely shared, and opportunities for enhancing diversity are encouraged and supported. We stand committed to fostering and sustaining a pluralistic, inclusive environment that empowers the campus community to achieve their highest potential. We encourage our university community to embrace the underlying values of this vision, and to demonstrate a strong commitment to supporting, retaining, and attracting students, faculty, and staff who reflect the diversity of our larger society.
SSU is one of the most requested campuses in the CSU system and regularly named “Best Regional University” and one of the “most wired” campuses in the nation. SSU is the only California University invited to be a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, a prestigious group of 25 universities and colleges across the nation committed to providing superior liberal arts and sciences education to their students.
Sonoma State has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 245 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sonoma State employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 79% of employees would recommend working at Sonoma State to a friend. This is based on 246 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
78% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Sonoma State as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Sonoma State.