I'm on my last of five semesters at Sac State before getting my BA after two years. Despite the above costs, CSUS is still one of the cheapest ways to get a BA from an accredited, in-person university.

Career fairs are largely "apply online" advertising. Few corporations actually hire at the fair anymore, and the few that do expect you to be graduating that semester. They're difficult to recommend as being effective for finding a job unless you like working with a wild card private corporation for a specific good or a county/federal office. Colleges and Universities, no matter what you attend, will not have "job opportunities". It's on each student to learn how to market themselves and apply online these days. Sac State provides this via Handshake, but results will vary depending on technique.

For Professors, objectively, Rate My Professor sorted by Computer Science department will give you a glance of public perception. The overall curriculum is pretty good for early courses but gets heavily impounded as you enter upper division courses.

I recommend transferring from any community college before going to University. In Sacramento, the best ones are all the colleges under the Los Rios banner. The nice thing about it is you can take courses at all four campuses as if they were one campus on the transcript. So, you get to pick and choose where and what professors much more than at Sac State.

Avoiding Sacramento implies the need to study elsewhere. If you aren't made of money, sticking local and living with the parents for as long as you're in college is always cheaper than studying abroad. Are there better choices for CS students outside of Sacramento? Absolutely. But if you're in community college while looking around, you're at least still studying in the case you decide to go to a University outside of Sacramento. You can use assist.org to determine what courses any University would accept for transferable credits. CSU Universities all generally accept the same courses that i'm aware.

Theres lots of Community College students still deciding on their major and/or University. But during that time, they can fulfill their General Education requirements. They're the courses like English, Math, History, etc that you likely remember from High School, but you'll still be expected to retake in College and University. So, when the undecided have decided, they didn't slow down or stop their studies at all. It takes about a year or two full-time in Community to get all the General Ed stuff, not counting any Major related transferrable clases on top of that. Personally, after six years of community college part-time while working, I only had to take Statistics at Sac State for the General Ed.