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California State University, East Bay
Cal State East Bay was established in 1957 as the State College for Alameda County and operates its main campus in Hayward with over 150,000 alumni.
California State University, East Bay was founded in 1957 on the original mission of serving Alameda County residents. The main campus occupies 25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard in Hayward, accessible by major freeways and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. The university operates a second location in Concord and serves students through a mix of in-person and online learning formats, offering 49 bachelor's degrees, 57 minors, and 34 master's degrees across four colleges.
The university's defining characteristic is accessibility. Sixty-two percent of its undergraduates are first-generation college students, many working while taking classes or returning to school after time away. The institution is ranked among the nation's top 25 colleges by return on investment and in the top 2 percent nationally for social mobility, measures of how effectively it serves students regardless of their starting point. More than 150,000 Cal State East Bay alumni now work in every sector across the Bay Area and beyond.
College is often the turning point in a family's financial trajectory: the first in the family to earn a degree, the pathway to a profession, the investment that takes years of household income to complete. A parent supporting a student through school, or a student who has borrowed for education, carries the same obligation that life insurance addresses—a source of income that would be desperately needed if something happened. A term policy covering the years of peak education costs is how working families protect that investment.