San Diego State University is a public research university in San Diego, California, founded in 1897. SDSU enrolls approximately 36,000 students and its Aztecs compete in the Mountain West Conference at the NCAA Division I level. The university is nationally recognized for its programs in business, engineering, public health, social work, and communications. SDSU holds a prominent research profile particularly in areas of health sciences, genomics, computational sciences, and borderlands studies — reflecting the university's position near the US-Mexico border in one of America's largest cities…
