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Recruitment and Placement
CSU, Chico maintains one of the strongest and most respected on-campus corporate recruiting programs on the West Coast. In a spring 2007 survey of employers, recruiters rated 76 percent of Chico students outstanding or above average compared to other universities. Some of the prestigious corporations that have been most active in job offers and acceptances are
- Hewlett Packard
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Union Pacific Railroad
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Deloitte
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Pacific Gas & Electric
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IBM
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- Enterprise Rent-A-Car
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Mervyns
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Chevron
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Federated Insurance
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General Electric
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Graduates of several programs, including special education, speech pathology, nursing, accounting, and construction management, enjoy a near 100 percent employment rate. A survey of the 2007 construction management graduates reveals 96 percent have accepted job offers. Each graduate interviewed with an average of 7.6 construction companies, received 3.4 job offers, and accepted an average starting salary of $58,500 per year.
Continuing Education
Working with faculty from the College of Business, Continuing Education extended the Localization Certification Program to Europe this year and added a Localization Project Management Certification, the first of its kind in the world. More than 135 individuals, from 24 countries, enrolled.
Information Resources
The campus portal provides single sign-on access to registration, online courses, Web-based e-mail, grades, and campus information 24 hours a day.
Secure wireless networking is a free service to students, available in most high-use public areas of campus, including the library, the student union, Selvester’s Cafe, and the residence hall common areas.
The student computing labs and student help desk in the library are open and staffed 24 hours a day.
Small groups of students can use NetStudy rooms in the library for working on collaborative projects, sharing computers and large-screen displays.
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