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.
The James B. Hunt Jr.
 Library is the second main library of North Carolina State University (NCSU) and is located on the University's Centennial Campus.
 The $115 million facility opened in January 2013 and is best known for its architecture and technological integration, including a large robotic book storage and retrieval system which houses most of the university's engineering, textiles, and hard sciences collections.
 The library is named after James Baxter "Jim" Hunt, Jr., the four-term 69th and 71st Governor of North Carolina.
 NCSU Libraries is part of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), which shares books between North Carolina State University, Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina Central University.
Jane Close Conoley is the president of California State University, Long Beach.
 She is the former interim chancellor of the University of California, Riverside; she took on the chancellorial duties on December 31, 2012 following the resignation of former chancellor Tim White.
 Prior to being selected as the interim chancellor for UC Riverside, Conoley was the dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara from January 2006 to December 30, 2012, a position which she publicly stated she intended to resume upon the completion of her tenure as interim chancellor of UC Riverside.
 On January 29, 2014, Conoley was announced as the new president of California State University, Long Beach.
North Carolina State University (also referred to as NCSU, NC State, or just State) is a public research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.
 It is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution.
 The university forms one of the corners of the Research Triangle together with Duke University in Durham and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Long Beach Blues Festival, in Long Beach, California, was established in full in 1980, and was one of the largest blues festivals and was the second oldest on the West Coast (first being the San Francisco Blues Festival).
 It was held on Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend.
 For many years it was held on the athletic field on the California State University, Long Beach campus.
 The 2009 festival, the 30th annual, was held at Rainbow Lagoon in downtown Long Beach.
 The Festival went on hiatus in 2010, and has not been held since.
The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California.
 With 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers enrolling 478,638 students with 24,405 faculty and 23,012 staff, CSU describes itself the largest four-year public university system in the United States.
 It is one of three public higher education systems in the state, with the other two being the University of California system and the California Community Colleges System.
 The CSU System is incorporated as The Trustees of the California State University.
 The California State University system headquarters are at 401 Golden Shore in Long Beach, California.
Carl Weston McIntosh, Jr. (December 1, 1914 – January 19, 2009) was an American professor of forensics and acting.
 He served as president of Idaho State College (now Idaho State University) from 1947 to 1959.
 He was acting executive dean when the college achieved its independence from the University of Idaho in March 1947, and he elevated it into a four-year, bachelor's degree-granting institution in December 1948.
 He left Idaho in 1959 to become president of Long Beach State College (now known as California State University, Long Beach).
 He oversaw the college's rapid growth from less than 10,000 students to 28,000 and two name changes (to California State College at Long Beach in 1964 and to California State College, Long Beach in 1968).
 He was named president of Montana State University in 1970.
 He established the university's nursing and pre-medical education programs and completed its first football stadium and creative arts complex, but also faced a years of fiscal austerity imposed by the state legislature.
 He retired in 1977.
Bill Kernen (born August 1, 1948 in Boise, Idaho) is the retired former head coach of the California State University, Bakersfield baseball team.
 Prior to that position he was the head coach of the California State University, Northridge baseball team from 1989–1995, and the pitching coach for the California State University, Fullerton baseball team from 1978–1982 and 1986-87.
 Following this he was the pitching coach at University of Illinois from 1987-88.
 He was the pitching coach at North Carolina State from 2001-1003.
 Before founding and building the program at CS Bakersfield, he was again an assistant at CS Fullerton in 2006-2007.
 In addition to his baseball coaching achievements, Kernen is also an accomplished playwright, having been produced on the New York stage seven times.
 He is the producer, writer and director of a short film made in 2006.
 Kernen was a professional baseball player in the Baltimore Oriole organization from 1970-72.
Clifton Mark Snider (born March 3, 1947) is an American poet, novelist, literary critic, scholar, and educator.
 He has a B.A. and an M.A. from California State University, Long Beach, and a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico.
 He has taught at various institutions of higher education in southern California, primarily at Long Beach City College and at California State University, Long Beach.
The Long Beach State 49ers football team represented California State University, Long Beach from the 1955 through 1991 seasons.
 The 49ers originally competed as an Independent before joining the California Collegiate Athletic Association in 1958.
 By the 1969 season, the 49ers would join the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (now the Big West) as a founding member, where they remained until the program was suspended following the 1991 season.
 Long Beach played its home games at multiple stadiums throughout their history with the most recent being Veterans Memorial Stadium, in Long Beach, California.
 During their 37 years of competition, the 49ers compiled an all-time record of 199 wins, 183 losses and 4 ties.
 Three members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame were associated with the program during its otherwise forgettable last two years of existence, i.e., head coaches George Allen and Willie Brown, as well as running back Terrell Davis.

Question: Is North Carolina State University or California State University, Long Beach further west?
Answer: California State University, Long Beach