Our centers and institutes are hubs of collaboration
San Diego State University has more than 70 robust and active centers and institutes that serve as collaborative and innovative nuclei of research, scholarship, and action. Many of our centers and institutes work in partnership with Southern California governments, agencies, non-profits, corporations, and universities. Others have a global reach that spans five continents.
Interested in establishing a new center or updating an existing one? Review the SDSU Centers & Institutes Policies.
Centers and Institutes at San Diego State University
- Academy for Professional Excellence
- Arts Alive
- Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies
- Bread and Roses Center
- Center for Accounting in the Public Interest
- Center for Achieving Black Wellness and Anti-Racist Education (CABWARE)
- Center for Advancement of Students in Academia
- Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies and Services
- Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
- Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Center for Behavioral Teratology
- Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN)
- Center for Comics Studies
- Center for Communication, Health, & the Public Good (CCHPG)
- Center for Community Research & Engagement (CCCE)
- Center for Community Energy and Environmental Justice (CCEEJ)
- Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research Lab (CESAR)
- Center for Electric Drive Transportation (CEDT)
- Center for Energy Studies
- Center for Equity and Biliteracy Education Research (CEBER)
- Center for Equity and Postsecondary Attainment (CEPA)
- Center for European Studies
- Center for Excellence in Aging & Longevity (CEAL)
- Center for Excellence in Early Development (CEED)
- Center for Better Food Futures
- Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies (CHEPS)
- Center for Hospitality and Tourism Research
- Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA)
- Center for Human Rights
- Center for Industrial Training and Engineering Research (CITER)
- Center for Information Convergence and Strategy (CICS)
- Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
- Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies (CIAS)
- Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)
- Center for Neural Technology
- Center for Open Geographical Science (COGS)
- Center for Public and Oral History
- Center for Regional Sustainability
- Center for Regulatory Science
- Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
- Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education (CRMSE)
- Center for Research on Sexuality and Sexual Health (SASH)
- Center for Science & Media
- Center for Surf Research
- Center for the Study of Media and Performance (CSMP)
- Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film
- Center for Teaching Critical Thinking and Creativity
- Center for Tobacco and the Environment
- Center for War and Society
- Charles Hostler Institute on World Affairs
- Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
- Chinese Cultural Center (CCC)
- Coastal and Marine Institute (CMI)
- Collections Management
- Communication Systems and Signal Processing Institute
- Computational Science Research Center (CSRC)
- Concrete Research Institute
- Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Volunteer and Mentorship Center
- Consensus Organizing Center (COC)
- Corky McMillin Center for Real Estate (CMCRE)
- Corporate Governance Institute (CGI)
- Edwin C. Allison Center for Earth System History
- Field Stations Programs
- Glen M. Broom Center for Professional Development in Public Relations
- Industrial Assessment Center
- Institute for the Arts, Humanities and Social Justice
- Institute for Behavioral and Community Health (IBACH)
- Institute for Dialogue and Social Justice
- Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs
- Institute for Ecological Monitoring and Management (IEMM)
- Institute for Inclusiveness and Diversity in Organizations (IIDO)
- Institute for Innovative Governance
- Institute for Leisure and Tourism Management
- Institute for Meetings and Events
- Institute for Public Health (IPH)
- Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias (IRSC)
- Integrated Regenerative Research Institute
- International Population Center (IPC)
- Interwork Institute
- James Silberrad Brown Center for AI Research
- Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC)
- Lavin Entrepreneurship Center
- Live Well Center for Innovation and Leadership
- Lipinsky Institute
- Molecular Biology Institute
- National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature (NCSCL)
- National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST)
- Pre-College Institute (PCI)
- Production Center for Documentary and Drama
- SDSU Literacy Center
- SDSU IV Borderlands Institute
- SDSU IV Rise Center
- Smart Health Institute
- Social Policy Institute
- South Bay Latino Research Center (SBLRC)
- South Coastal Information Center (SCIC)
- Sustainable Energy Center
- Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming
- The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation Student Center for Professional Development
- Virtual Immersive Teaching and Learning (VITaL) Center
- VizCenter
- Watershed Science Institute (WSI)
- Wendy Gillespie Center for Advancing Global Business
- Young People's Environments, Society and Space Research Center (YESS)