California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) is a public comprehensive university in the heart of Los Angeles, one of the 23 universities in the California State University (CSU) system.
 Cal State LA is located in the eastern region of Los Angeles, California, United States, in the University Hills district, facing the San Gabriel Mountains, at the center of Los Angeles metropolitan area just five miles (8 km) east of Downtown Los Angeles.
The University of South Alabama (USA), officially nicknamed "South" is a public, national research university in Mobile, Alabama, United States.
 It was created by the Alabama Legislature in May, 1963, and replaced existing extension programs operated in Mobile by the University of Alabama.
 With Alabama's two older universities more than 200 miles distant, the University is strategically located in the greater Mobile area, which has a population of more than a million within a 100-mile radius.
 Currently, USA is divided into ten colleges and schools and includes one of Alabama's two state-supported medical schools.
 As of the Fall semester of 2016, South Alabama has an enrollment of 16,699 students.
 To date, the University has awarded over 80,000 degrees.
 As of 2014 the university maintains a 14% graduation rate for four year courses, and was named the 8th most dangerous college in the country by "Business Insider".
Raphael J. Sonenshein (born November 10, 1949 in Nutley, New Jersey) was a political science professor at California State University, Fullerton.
 He is also served as chairman of the department.
 An instructor at the university from 1982 to 2012, Sonenshein holds a bachelor's degree in public policy from Princeton University and a doctorate in political science from Yale University.
 His books, "" and "The City at Stake: Secession, Reform, and the Battle for Los Angeles" detail the political history of Los Angeles in the last fifty years.
 He is currently working on a third book.
 Sonenshein recently returned to the United States after completing a semester teaching in Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship.
 Sonenshein recently transferred to California State University, Los Angeles, where he was appointed Executive Director of the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs.
California State University, San Bernardino, (also known as Cal State San Bernardino or CSUSB), is a public university and one of the 23 general campuses of the California State University system.
 The main campus sits on 441 acre in the University District of San Bernardino, California, United States, with a branch campus of 40 acre in Palm Desert, California, opened in 1986.
 In 2013, California State University, San Bernardino was named a 2014 Best College in the Western Region by The Princeton Review for the tenth consecutive year, ranking CSUSB among the top 25 percent of universities across the nation.
 Back in 2011, California State University, San Bernardino’s Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration was recognized by "European CEO Magazine" as one of the top 20 schools of business in the world and one of the world's 18 most innovative business schools.
South Alabama Regional Airport at Bill Benton Field (FAA LID: 79J) , formerly known as Andalusia-Opp Airport, is a public use airport in Covington County, Alabama, United States.
 It is located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) east of the central business district of Andalusia, Alabama and about 9 mi west of Opp, Alabama.
 The airport is governed by the South Alabama Regional Airport Authority, with members appointed by the Andalusia City Council, the Opp Council, and the Covington County Commission.
California State University, East Bay (commonly referred to as Cal State East Bay, CSU East Bay, or CSUEB) is a public university located in Hayward, California, United States.
 The university, as part of the 23-campus California State University system, offers 136 undergraduate and 60 post-baccalaureate areas of study.
 California State University, East Bay has been designated a top–tier institution among master's–granting universities in the west by "U.S. News & World Report" and has been recognized as a "Best in the West" college by the Princeton Review.
California State University, Long Beach (CSULB; also known as Long Beach State, Cal State Long Beach, LBSU, or The Beach) is the third largest campus of the 23-school California State University system (CSU) and one of the largest universities in the state of California by enrollment, its student body numbering 37,776 for the Fall 2016 semester.
 As of Fall 2014, the school had 2,283 total faculty, with 36.7 percent of those faculty on the tenure track.
 With 5,286 graduate students, the university enrolls one of the largest graduate student populations across the CSU and in the state of California alone.
 The university is located in the Los Altos neighborhood of Long Beach at the southeastern coastal tip of Los Angeles County, less than one mile from the border with Orange County.
 The university offers 82 different Bachelor's degrees, 65 types of Master's degrees, and four Doctoral degrees.
Mary Helen Ponce is a chicana writer.
 She was born on January 24, 1938 in Pacoima, California.
 She has worked as an instructor of Chicano studies at California State University from 1982 to 1987 and from 1987 to 1988 she was also an adjunct professor.
 From 1988 to 1992 she was adjunct faculty in the Women's Studies Program at the University of New Mexico, Women's Studies Program.
 She was an adjunct faculty member at University of California from 1992 to 1993.
 She is also a writer for the Los Angeles Times.
 She earned her bachelor's degree in Anthropology from California State University in 1978 and then a master's degree in Chicano Studies in 1980.
 She studied from 1982 to 1984 at the University of California at Los Angeles.
 There she was the recipient of the History Department's Danforth Fellowship.
 She worked toward her Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico in 1988.
 She is a member of Comisión Femenil San Fernando Valley.
Howard Stevenson McDonald (July 18, 1894 – October 25, 1986) was President of Brigham Young University (BYU), Los Angeles State College (now known as California State University, Los Angeles), San Fernando State College (now known as California State University, Northridge), and Los Angeles City College.
International Polytechnic High School, commonly abbreviated merely as iPoly, is a public college preparatory demonstration high school (9-12) located on the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) campus and operated by the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) in conjunction with the College of Education and Integrative Studies at the university.
 iPoly's curriculum is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and is approved by the University of California and California State University.
 It maintains a unique affiliation with the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), which is also run by LACOE.
 Since iPoly does not lie in a fixed school district, it draws students from throughout Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties.
 The majority of students come from the Pomona and San Gabriel valleys.
 In 2009 and 2013, iPoly was honored as a California Distinguished School by the California Department of Education.

Question:  Is California State University, Los Angeles or University of South Alabama east of united states?
Answer: University of South Alabama