Our centers and institutes are hubs of collaboration
San Diego State University has more than dozens of 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.
Research-Focused Centers and Institutes
- Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies
- Bread and Roses Center for Feminist Research and Activism
- Caili and Daniel Chang Center for Electric Drive Transportation
- Center for Accounting in the Public Interest (CAPI)
- 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 (CCRE)
- Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research Lab (CESAR)
- Center for Equity and Biliteracy Education Research (CEBER)
- Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies (CHEPS)
- Center for Hospitality and Tourism Research
- Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA)
- 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 Neural Technology (CNT)
- Center for Open Geographical Science (COGS)
- Center for Public and Oral History
- Center for Regional Sustainability
- Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education (CRMSE)
- Center for Research on Sexuality and Sexual Health (SASH)
- Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports, and Social Change
- Center for Surf Research
- Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film
- Center for Tobacco and the Environment
- Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC)
- Coastal and Marine Institute (CMI)
- Communication Systems and Signal Processing Institute
- Computational Science Research Center (CSRC)
- Corporate Governance Institute (CGI)
- Industrial Assessment Center
- Institute for Behavioral and Community Health (IBACH)
- Institute for Ecological Monitoring and Management (IEMM)
- Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs
- Institute for Inclusiveness and Diversity in Organizations (IIDO)
- Institute for the Arts, Humanities and Social Justice
- Institute for Transformative Education (ITE)
- Integrated Regenerative Research Institute
- International Population Center (IPC)
- Interwork Institute
- James Silberrad Brown Center for AI Research (JSBAI)
- National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature (NCSCL)
- Production Center for Documentary and Drama
- SDSU Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders
- SDSU IV Borderlands Institute
- SDSU IV RISE Center
- South Bay Latino Research Center (SBLRC)
- Sustainable Energy Center
- Virtual Immersive Teaching and Learning (VITaL) Center
- Watershed Science Institute (WSI)
- Young People's Environments, Society and Space Research Center (YESS)