Cleveland State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. It consists of the James J. Nance College of Business Administration, Fenn College of Engineering, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, and the colleges of arts and sciences, education, graduate studies, and law. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs. Notable facilities on campus include the World Trade Education Center.

The university was established by the Ohio legislature in 1964. Inheriting the faculty, student body, and buildings of Fenn College (organized 1923) in downtown Cleveland, the university opened for classes in 1965. The College of Education was added the next year. In 1969 the university began graduate instruction and took over operations of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (1897). The urban affairs college was added in 1977.