Cal Poly Pomona is one of only nine polytechnic universities in the country (Arizona State University Polytechnic; Cal Poly Pomona; Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Northwestern Polytechnic University, CA; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY; Southern Polytechnic State University, GA; Stout-Wisconsin Polytechnic University; Virginia Polytechnic State University; Worcester Polytechnic University, MA)
Cal Poly Pomona was the first university to establish an undergraduate program in Computer Information Systems in the U.S.
Cal Poly Pomona is the only CSU, and one of four in California (Stanford, UC Davis, Navel Postgraduate School), to be designated as a National Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education (2005-08) by the Department of Homeland Security and National Security Agency.
Cal Poly Pomona was the first university to establish an undergraduate program in Biotechnology with an emphasis in Business in the U.S.
Cal Poly Pomona is the one of 16 accredited manufacturing engineering programs in U.S. and one of two in California (San Luis Obispo).
Cal Poly Pomona’s College of Engineering produces 1 out of 14 engineering graduates in California.
One out of every five architects who pass the California Architecture Registration Exam to become a licensed architect is a Cal Poly Pomona graduate.
Cal Poly Pomona is the only four-year institution granting bachelors and masters of Science degrees in agriculture in Southern California.
Cal Poly Pomona is one of only a few universities, and one of two in the CSU (CS San Marcos), to offer an undergraduate major in biotechnology.
Cal Poly Pomona has the largest hospitality management program of its kind in California.
Cal Poly Pomona has the only university lighting degree program west of Colorado: the Center for Lighting Education & Applied Research. The program’s photometric laboratory is the only one of its kind at any U.S. university.
The College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences has one of only two four-year degree music business programs (CS Northridge) in the in Southern California.
The John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies is the first center of its kind to demonstrate integrated regenerative systems at a university. It is one of only a few universities in the U.S. with a center devoted to regenerative studies.
The BioTrek Center is the only facility of its kind at a university in the world.
The university’s Arabian horse breeding program is the oldest continuous and fifth largest in the United States, with more than 70 percent of the domestic Arabian bloodstock in this country tracing its lineage to the original Kellogg breeding program.
The Cal Poly Pomona and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Rose Float is the only continuing Rose Parade entry by a university and the only one that is entirely a student effort. The float has won 45 awards. The 2008 float entry, Guardians of Harmony, will mark the 60th anniversary of the Cal Poly’s participation.
Cal Poly Pomona has 54 computer labs on campus for general student use.
Cal Poly Pomona has over 240 active student clubs and organizations.
Cal Poly Pomona has over 1,000 enrolled international students.
Cal Poly Pomona conferred over 3,000 degrees at the 2007 commencement ceremonies. Cal Poly Pomona has over 103,000 alumni.
