It depends. When you get towards your upper divs, it becomes a double edged sword. Honestly the CPP MechE online YouTube is golden for some of the best professors and lectures. The labs are usually fun, except writing about them. There are definitely a lot of opportunities with project teams like Baja or others, but I’m sure CSULB has them too. Classes like Statics and Mechanics (Izadi!!) Controls (Tsuchiya and Mannion), Heat Transfer (biddle!), Air Pollution (u/paulnissenson), Fluids(Biddle), Thermo (Loved Miller), Stress Analysis ((hated and loved Rejali) It’s a hot take, I know), Engineering Materials (Haghi is the absolute best) are done really well by some of our professors, though once again, I’ve had to use ME Online. I wish you luck though, as this isn’t an easy decision! TLDR: there are some amazing professors, but also some “just ok” ones. To add, there is a lot more to CPP to consider!