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San Diego State University Rankings 2025
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- SDSU Ranking Highlights
- SDSU University Ranking
- SDSU Course Ranking
- SDSU US News & World Report Ranking 2025
- SDSU QS Ranking 2025
- SDSU THE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2025
- SDSU ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
- SDSU Student Reviews
SDSURanking Highlights
Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, San Diego State University has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, San Diego State University stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.
Rated B++ by Shiksha Grading, San Diego State University is also rated A for BBA. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the San Diego State University courses are in the range of A and C+ grades.
Although there are multiple grading platforms accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes Shiksha Grading stand out is that Shiksha uses the aggregate of all the publicly available university and course rankings from top-ranking publishers and maps it into nine buckets, namely A++, A+, A, B++, B+, B, C++, C+, C. With this method, courses are graded on the basis of their availability at the college in a particular country and universities are graded by the countries.
Moving on, according to 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, San Diego State University ranks #1001, which is stable in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #1001 in 2024. San Diego State University also ranks #801 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. As compared to the last year, San Diego State University witnessed a declining trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #601 in 2023. Additionally, San Diego State University ranks #105 in US News 'National University' category in 2024.
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SDSUCourse Ranking
San Diego State University ranks well for its Aerospace Engineering PG, UG Business, Psychology, and Clinical & Health courses. In the previous years, San Diego State University has been ranked among the top universities in the world for Aerospace Engineering PG by US News. As per the US News, San Diego State University ranks at #57 in 2024 for its Aerospace Engineering PG courses. In 2023, this ranking stood at #50. Also, for US News UG Business raking category, San Diego State University ranks at #84 position in 2024. Additionally, in THE 2024 ranking, the San Diego State University is ranked #301 for Psychology.
Apart from the global ranking bodies, Shiksha has also graded San Diego State University streams, such as Business & Management Studies, Engineering, and Law with B+, B+, and C++ grades. The presence of multiple rankings online can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad. Hence, Shiksha Study Abroad has launched Shiksha Grading. With it, students will no longer be required to check multiple ranking organisations to know about the performance of a particular university. Just checking Shiksha rating will suffice.
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SDSUUS News & World Report Ranking 2025
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
Global Universities | 593 | 708 | – / – |
| National University | 151 | 105 | 109 |
| Aerospace Engineering PG | 57 | 55 | – / – |
| Best Graduate Nursing Schools | 86 | 78 | – / – |
| Biomedical Engineering PG | 106 | 105 | – / – |
| Civil Engineering PG | – / – | 77 | – / – |
| Computer Engineering PG | 98 | 112 | – / – |
| Electrical Engineering PG | 122 | 102 | – / – |
| Mechanical Engineering PG | 97 | 96 | – / – |
| UG Business | 73 | 84 | 77 |
SDSUQS Ranking 2025
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| World University | 1001 | 1001 | 1001 |
SDSUTHE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2025
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University | 601 | 801 | 1001 |
| Arts and Humanities | 501 | 601 | – / – |
| Clinical and Health | 401 | 401 | – / – |
| Engineering | 601 | 601 | – / – |
| Life Sciences | 501 | 501 | – / – |
| PG Business and Economics | 601 | 601 | – / – |
| PG Computer Science | 601 | 601 | – / – |
| Psychology | 301 | 301 | – / – |
SDSUARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universities | 501 | 601 | 501 |
| Law | 151 | 201 | – / – |
| Political Sciences | 301 | – / – | – / – |
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Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered 3 weeks ago
According to various sources, San Diego State University has an overall acceptance rate of around 37% making it very selective for international student admissions. This means that only 37 applications out of 100 are selected for admissions every year. Some of the general admission requirements for
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Answered 3 weeks ago
The first-year and graduate requirements for students at San Diego State University are given as follows:
- Official Grade Reports and Transcripts
- Examination Certificates
- Secondary School Examination Certificate
- Higher Secondary/Intermediate Examination Certificate
- University Mark Sheets
- Provisional Deg
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Answered 2 months ago
San Diego State Uni is a competitive university to get into, as its acceptance rate stands at 34%. This figure tells us that only 34 out of every 100 applicants manage to get enrolled in the university, which is less than half of all the applicants. However, students must not get discouraged and ful
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Answered 2 months ago
Usually, the San Diego State University acceptance rate is around 34%. In Fall 2023, San Diego State received over 83,000 applications from prospective undergraduates and graduates. Out of these, about 28,000 candidates secured an admission offer from the university. Hence, it can be concluded that
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Answered 2 months ago
In order to secure admission, all overseas applicants must fulfill certain San Diego State Uni admission requirements listed below:
Undergraduate Requirements:
- Official secondary school transcripts;
- Minimum Letters 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale);
- Proof of English language proficiency; and
- SAT/ACT scores (not manda
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