Well it's not like there is shortage of great schools in California. Basically anything in the UC system is great, there obviously Stanford and USC as well. But

Well it's not like there is shortage of great schools in California. Basically anything in the UC system is great, there obviously Stanford and USC as well. But certainly Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB are all world class and UCI, UCSC, UCR and UCD are nothing to sneeze at either. Cal State also has some great programs particularly in Engineering at Poly San Luis Obispo As far as the degree itself it really depends on what you want to do. Work in a business? MBA will be fine, work as an Engineer? Get an MS. Be a Lecturer at a CC? Any Master's will probably work.