San Jose State University: Admissions 2026, Fees, Rankings, Scholarships & Courses

• There is an organisation for Indian students that is recognised by the university. We celebrate all the Indian festivals. They also conduct workshops for resume building and to grow our network.

• Tuition fees are $31,000 and Insurance for the entire duration would be around $4000 living expenses would be $900 per month

• Our university has various departments other than Science and Engineering blocks. There are some departments like music and arts for the respective students. They also have their respective clubs and each of the clubs has its own organisations to operate and conduct the events. For every semester, they conduct various events like welcoming events and fundraising events and also some volunteer organisations come and provide their services, which encourages students during their college times.
• We have a very vast library and have access to all the reference books that are required for our academics and many published articles, which helps students to do their project works and research. As a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering department, I got an opportunity to explore the courses like Digital Design and SystemVerilog-based Verification and also Logic Verification with Unified Verification Methodology (UVM), which is very much helpful for someone like me who is looking for opportunities in Digital Electronics.
• The faculty are very well experienced and also use all their experience in making the students understand the complexities in VLSI design. The labs are also equipped with the most updated and real-life tools from Synopsys and Cadence.
• Our university also encourages the students to excel their skills in co-curricular activities like basketball and Soccer. Unfortunately, I'm not that interested in any sports, so I did not participate in any tournaments but I have been to many events and tournaments at the Spartan Stadium and the Indoor stadium at our college.
• Apart from these activities, we have the Indian Student Organisation and also the International Student Organisation, which conduct the events and also some religious activities for students who are interested in their religious beliefs and who want to celebrate their festivals and could not go back to their families in their home countries.

• We only have one campus. We have a lot of in-house facilities like library, sports, a student wellness centre and there are a lot of fest which will go around on campus and there are a lot of event and there is an Indian Student organization where we celebrate festivals like Holi, diwali, Garba and more.

• There is only one campus situated in the downtown area.
• There is a Martin Luther King library, gym and swimming pool that is very large. In addition, there is a building that has a lab; the computers are equipped with NVIDIA GPUs, which you can use to run your heavy models or do assignments.
• There are always some events going on on campus, be it a job fair or a cultural event. Indian students have an ISO group. They celebrate Diwali, Dandiya and Holi every year. You can go and participate in the event.
   

• Tuition fees: 26,200 USD
• Living expense: 20,000 USD
• The fees are charged credit-wise and semester-wise. We had to pay for every credit and pay before the start of every semester.
• Rent is around 700-1000 USD
• Transportation would be around 100-120 USD
• Regular expenses would include groceries and utilities, which would be like approximately 1000-1500 USD per month. Plus, it varies from person to person.

• My university has only one campus. There is library, recreational center, wellness center in the university. There are a lot of festivals happening here and there and many of the Indian festivals are celebrated here.
• There are many clubs including a few of Indian clubs which regularly held events for the students. There are also a lot of student organizations that help students throughout the semester which is also a big help.

• Fee is charged semester wise. The tuition fee is 8749 for one semester. Other than that there is cost for insurance which is quite high.
• Rent really depends on the property one lives in. But it is around 570-800 dollars per month. For transportation the university provides a clipper card for 3 dollars which lets us travel in bus and light rail for free.

• I am personally not involved in many of the clubs and other events. I seldom find these interesting but I can see that there are always some or other types of events going on.
• Most of the master's students don't generally focus on these as most of the undergrads are in the clubs. There is a great library that students have access to until midnight so that's a great place to be.

• We have only one campus here; here in the SJSU we have all the facilities, including the gym, swimming pool, and ground for different activities like basketball, volleyball, pickleball, etc.
• There are lots of clubs that organise Indian activities like celebrations of Diwali, Navratri, Ganesh Chaturthi, and Holi.
• I have been joined in 2 major clubs: one is an Indian student organisation, and the other is Spartan Analytics.

• My entire course needs 30 credits of subjects without considering pre-requisites
• My master is for 2 years and it cost me around 32k to 34k for my entire coursework.
• In addition to this, we have to pay for health insurance, which costs $800 for fall and $1100 for spring, including summer. And same for the next year.
• My fees can be paid through an education loan or case (not sure if they allot, but I heard of it). Here one subject costs around 3k so by this we can calculate the rest of the fees.
• Monthly expenses are mainly for rent and utilities, which is around 650 per person here in San Jose.

Myrtle events take place here throughout the semester. Starting from Weeks of Welcome to different club events, there is no day we don't have an event.

SJSU is pretty good. They offer some well structured curicullum and the faculties here are well experienced. Learning wise this college is exceptional, but for jobs we need to apply outside as there is no placements and companies coming to college. Most of the universities here does not provide campus placements like India. Each student should approach to the company employers and apply.

SJSU has some well formed clubs and groups and host events regularly . SJSU has all the facilities like gym, cafes, pool. auditorium, libraries, free wifi etc required for the students to reach their goals.

It was good. I really enjoyed and degree was very productive. A lot of research experience and hands on writing experience. A lot of support in terms of research projects, jobs, on campus jobs, extra curricular activities.

Campus life is nice, multi cultural, and with option for different extra curricular activities.