Pepperdine University

United States of America

Pepperdine University is an American private, not-for-benefit, coeducational examination college worked in a range of 830 sections of land. It offers a base where understudies are fortified for lives of reason, administration, and initiative. Reliably positioned as a standout amongst the most delightful spots to contemplate, Pepperdine is the place you're enlivened to learn as you figure out how to move.

The Pepperdine University is private university and was founded by the entrepreneur George Pepperdine in 1937. The university is located on 830 acres campus in Malibu, California. Pepperdine is a Christian university committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and Christian values, where students are strengthened for lives of purpose, service, and leadership.

At Pepperdine, higher learning is aligned with a higher purpose. By integrating service, worship, and social responsibility with rigorous academic study, Pepperdine create a community that nurtures heart, soul, strength, and mind. Pepperdine is founded in the Churches of Christ tradition, which has served as the University's spiritual foundation for more than 75 years. Pepperdine envision the University as a place where people of all faith backgrounds treat one another with care and respect.

Pepperdine University follows a semester based academic calendar. The university offers more than 70 programs through its 5 graduate and under graduate schools: Undergraduate College of Letters (Seaver College), Arts and Sciences; School of Law; School of Business and Management; Graduate School of Education and Psychology; and School of Public Policy. In addition to its Malibu campus, the University offers graduate courses at California campuses in Los Angeles, Irvine, Santa Clara, Encino and Westlake Village. The school also has facilities in Argentina, England, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Washington, D.C.

The university has a total student population of more than 7,600 of which over 3,500 are enrolled in under graduate programs. It has a student to faculty ratio of 13:1 and the acceptance rate of 38%. The university offers a relatively intimate classes as more than 65% of its classes have less than 20 students. Pepperdine University athletics team competes in NCAA Division I and has produced 48 Olympians.

Notable Alumni: Michael Brant Shermer (American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society), Neil Clark Warren (American clinical psychologist, Christian theologian, seminary professor)