I said “although it’s just an undergraduate college” because at one point in the OP you asked about universities that offer Ph.D.'s. The SAT people have never talked about selective and highly selective colleges. They never make distinctions between colleges, since that’s not their job. There are books for people applying to colleges that use those terms. However, each book uses the terms differently, so there’s no single definition of the terms. Each book uses a different formula which takes into things like the average SAT and/or ACT scores and high school averages of entering students, the percentage of applicants who are accepted, the ratings of the colleges by faculty members of other colleges, etc.
In any case, there are new colleges opening every year, most two-year schools, but also some four-year schools. There are universities offering Ph.D.'s for the first time every year. There are occasionally older colleges which improve their selectivity and become one of the most selective. (And there are older colleges that slide down from being selective to not being selective.) There’s no clear answer to any of the questions you have asked unless you make your questions more clear.
Yeah, Cal State Channel Islands is in Ventura County, in the city of Camarillo. There had been years of speculation and arguing about where to put a campus, and eventually what happened was that the state mental hospital shut down, and not too long after the buildings and grounds were chosen for the new university.
I think they’ve already started offering some classes, but all the majors are not up to speed yet.
The name seems to be a compromise, because Ventura, being the namesake of the county, is more famous, but it’s not in Ventura, really, so to make it sound like it belonged to everyone in the region, and use a phrase more widespread, they chose Channel Islands.
I’m still surprised, given the argument that several schools are founded each year, that nobody has mentioned a school founded in the past ten years. I’ll go poke around now.
Ok, now that I really read you post, I’m really confused. NO school has been founded in the past ten years, and yet you’ve linked to the same school’s page that I did?
My link happens to point out that the university opened in 2002.