The access to free professional equipment with little resistance is awesome. A lot of film schools do not allow easy access in this way, and the SDSU inventory is on par with the other film schools in socal, for an extremely reasonable price. Additionally, you actually get to make a short film every semester here (one semester is a documentary if you play your cards right and don't double up your schedule), whereas the other public film schools DO NOT do that.
Ultimately, the school is what you make it. You will learn from your peers and your own mistakes 10000% more than from the professors. There are a handful of amazing new professors with more experience, but when I was there it was 70% old men with no recent film industry experience, whose advice I found to be useless and outdated now that I myself work in the film industry. I truly believe this is now changing over time (and may have already), and my hint would be if you see a woman's name listed as professor: TAKE THAT CLASS.
Their career assistance has been unfortunately lackluster for me thus far, I have gotten work and jobs from putting the work in by myself (despite my persistent efforts in asking them for help), but again they are working to change this and believe it will be a lot better moving forward. Their alumni network is vast, they just need to learn how to use it, and to really do the work in having more alumni outreach to the recent successful alums, not only the older ones from a billion years ago, because I've found the recent alums from the last 5-6 years to be far more engaging and helpful.
