SF State College of Science & Engineering | 1,284 followers on LinkedIn. Committed to offering students an academic experience of "thinking, learning and doing." | The College of Science & Engineering (CoSE) is home to more than 400 faculty and staff members, including 182 tenured and tenure-track faculty and more than 6,000 students in eight departments and one school. CoSE also provides foundational education to students crossing the entirety of San Francisco State University. Our Mission CoSE provides an encouraging environment to develop the intellectual capacity, critical thinking, creativity and problem solving ability of its students so that they may become honorable, contributing and forward-thinking members of the science and engineering community of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.