Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, founded in 1901, is a public polytechnic university in San Luis Obispo on California's Central Coast. With about 22,000 students, Cal Poly is renowned for its "learn by doing" philosophy and is consistently ranked among the top undergraduate engineering and architecture programs in the western United States. The campus sits between the Pacific coast and the Santa Lucia mountains, and fierce demand for on-campus housing reflects both the university's popularity and SLO's limited off-campus rental market.
