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Pepperdine University is one of the leading colleges in California with the acceptance rate of 53%. Deadlines for application are . For more information, call (310) 506-4392 or send email at admission-seaver@pepperdine.edu.

11855 Enrolled 53% Acceptance Rate 25 - 30 SAT Range
Admissions
Academics
Tuition & Aid
Student Body
Campus Life
Careers

Admissions

  • Overview

    • Applicants: 11,855
    • Average HS GPA: 3.74
    • Acceptance Rate: 53%

  • GPA Breakdown

    • 42% — 3.75 - 3.99
    • 29% — 3.50 - 3.74
    • 10% — 3.25 - 3.49
    • 4% — 3.00 - 3.24
    • 1% — 2.50 - 2.99

  • SAT & ACT Test Scores

    SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing 25th-75th percentile (enrolled students)
    630 - 710
    SAT Math 25th-75th percentile (enrolled students)
    630 - 730
    ACT Composite Scores 25th-75th percentile (enrolled students)
    25 - 30

Academics

  • Majors

    AREA, ETHNIC, CULTURAL, GENDER, AND GROUP STUDIES.
    Asian Studies/Civilization.
    European Studies/Civilization.
    Hispanic-American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American/Chicano Studies.
    Latin American Studies.
    BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES.
    Biology/Biological Sciences, General.
    BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES.
    Accounting.
    Business Administration and Management, General.
    Finance, General.
    International Business/Trade/Commerce.
    COMMUNICATION, JOURNALISM, AND RELATED PROGRAMS.
    Advertising.
    Communication, General.
    Journalism.
    Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication, Other
    EDUCATION.
    Chemistry Teacher Education.
    English/Language Arts Teacher Education.
    Mathematics Teacher Education.
    Music Teacher Education.
    ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS.
    Creative Writing.
    English Language and Literature, General.
    Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies, Other.
    FOREIGN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND LINGUISTICS.
    French Language and Literature.
    German Language and Literature.
    Italian Language and Literature.
    Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General.
    HISTORY.
    History, General.
    LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, GENERAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES.
    Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies.
    MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS.
    Mathematics, General.
    MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES.
    International/Global Studies.
    Mathematics and Computer Science.
    Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
    Natural Sciences.
    Nutrition Sciences.
    PARKS, RECREATION, LEISURE, AND FITNESS STUDIES.
    Kinesiology and Exercise Science.
    Sport and Fitness Administration/Management.
    PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES.
    Philosophy.
    Religion/Religious Studies.
    PHYSICAL SCIENCES.
    Chemistry, General.
    Physics, General.
    PSYCHOLOGY.
    Psychology, General.
    SOCIAL SCIENCES.
    Economics, General.
    Political Science and Government, General.
    Sociology.
    VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS.
    Acting.
    Art History, Criticism and Conservation.
    Art/Art Studies, General.
    Arts, Entertainment,and Media Management, General.
    Directing and Theatrical Production.
    Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General.
    Dramatic/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft, Other.
    Film/Cinema/Video Studies.
    Music Theory and Composition.
    Music, General.
    Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology.

  • Degrees

    • Bachelor's
    • Doctoral/Professional
    • Doctoral/Research
    • Master's
    • Post-Bachelor's certificate

  • Prominent Alumni

    Katherine Hepburn
    First woman to win 4 Academy Awards
    Hanna Holborn Gray
    First woman president of major research university
    Nettie Stevens
    First to observe that X/Y chromosome determine sex
    Sari Horowitz
    Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism
    Dorothy Klenke Nash
    First U.S. woman neurosurgeon
    Alice Mitchell Rivlin
    First woman director of Congressional Budget Offic
    Ellen Kushner
    "Sound and Spirit" Host--on National Public Radio

Tuition & Aid

  • Dates

    Notification Date
    Apr 5

  • Required Forms

    • FAFSA

  • Expenses per Academic Year

    Tuition
    $62390
    Required Fees
    $752
    Average Cost for Books and Supplies
    $1000
    Tuition / Fees Vary by Year of Study
    No
    Board for Commuters
    N/A
    Transportation for Commuters
    $1000
    On-Campus Room and Board
    $18560

  • Available Aid

    Financial Aid Methodology
    Federal
    Scholarships and Grants Need-Based
    • Need-Based College/University Scholarship or Grant Aid from Institutional Funds
    • Need-Based Federal Pell
    • Need-Based Private Scholarships
    • Need-Based SEOG
    • Need-Based State Scholarships
    • Need-Based United Negro College Fund
    Federal Direct Student Loan Programs
    • Direct PLUS Loans
    • Direct Subsidized Stafford Loans
    • Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loans
    Federal Family Education Loan Programs (FFEL)
    • College/university loans from institutional funds
    Is Institutional Employment Available (other than Federal Work Study)
    Yes
    Direct Lender
    Yes

  • Financial Aid Rating

    • Financial Aid Rating 93/99

Student Body

  • Student Body Profile

    Total Undergraduate Enrollment
    3708
    Foreign Countries Represented
    66

  • Demographics

    • Asian 13.38%
    • African-American 4.53%
    • Hispanic 17.54%
    • Caucasian 46.49%
    • Male 42%
    • Female 58%
    • Аre out of state 43

Campus Life

  • Campus Life

    Undergrads living on campus
    65%
    Help finding off-campus housing
    Yes
    Quality of life rating 87/99
    First-Year Students living on campus
    100%
    Campus Environment
    Small Urban
    Fire safety rating
    60*

  • Special Needs Admissions

    College Entrance Tests Required
    Yes
    Interview Required
    No

  • Student Activities

    Registered Student Organizations
    87
    Number of Honor Societies
    13
    Number of Social Sororities
    8

  • Sports

    Athletic Division
    Division I
    Men's Sports (Crimson) (8)
    • Baseball
    • Basketball
    • Cross Country
    • Golf
    • Tennis
    • Track Field Outdoor
    • Volleyball
    • Water Polo
    Women's Sports (Crimson) (11)
    • Basketball
    • Cross Country
    • Diving
    • Golf
    • Sand Volleyball
    • Soccer
    • Swimming
    • Tennis
    • Track Field Indoor
    • Track Field Outdoor
    • Volleyball

  • Student Services

    Health
    LGBT Support Groups
    Minority Support Groups
    Army ROTC Offered at cooperating institutions: CSUN, UCLA Air Force ROTC Offered at cooperating institutions: USC, LMU

  • Sustainability

    Located in heavenly Malibu, Pepperdine University has taken Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to heart. Since 1972, the university has conserved millions of gallons of drinking water annually by irrigating over 99 percent of the university’s grounds with recycled water. The university has achieved a 78 percent waste-diversion rate by partnering with Crown Disposal to institute a single-stream recycling program including green and food-waste composting. There are initiatives in place for battery, E-waste and construction waste recycling or reuse. By providing on-campus housing for 52 percent of the students and an additional 8 percent of faculty and staff, fewer people commute each day and the overall carbon footprint is reduced. For those who do commute to the campus, Pepperdine offers a Rideshare program, subsidizes public transport, and operates campus shuttles—the campus has a fleet of twenty electric vehicles. Twenty percent of the university’s energy consumption is derived from renewable sources such as geothermal, wind, solar, and biomass. Faculty members give undergrads, including freshman, the opportunity to get involved with research in areas such as stream habitat restoration, post-fire ecology restoration, and coastal habitat monitoring. An organic community garden provides a platform for teaching organic gardening methods and allows students, faculty, and staff to grow their own organic plants. The SEER certificate in the Graziadio School of Business and Management trains students to understand the complexities of issues such as sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and ethics and how these tie into producing a superior product that generates financial growth. The University maintains over 500 acres of its 830-acre campus in a native state with over 40 acres of native vegetation maintained within the core campus. Given Pepperdine’s impressive record, it’s no surprise that it was here, that Governor Schwarzenegger signed the historic Global Warming Solutions Act, which seeks to bring California’s greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by 2020.

    Green rating
    N/A

  • Campus Security Report

    Campus Security Report
    The Jeanne Clery Act requires colleges and universities to disclosetheir security policies, keep a public crime log, publish an annualcrime report and provide timely warnings to students and campusemployees about a crime posing an immediate or ongoing threat tostudents and campus employees.
    Please visit The Princeton Review’s page on campus safety foradditional resources: http://www.princetonreview.com/safety
    The Princeton Review publishes links directly to each school's CampusSecurity Reports where available. Applicants can also access allschool-specific campus safety information using the Campus Safety andSecurity Data Analysis Cutting Tool provided by the Office ofPostsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education:https://ope.ed.gov/campussafety/#/

  • Other Information

    Campus-wide Internet Network
    Yes
    % of Classrooms with Wireless Internet
    100

Careers

  • Graduation Rates

    Graduate in 4 years
    80%
    Graduate in 5 years
    87%
    Graduate in 6 years
    89%

  • Career Services

    On-Campus Job Interviews Available
    Yes
    Career Services
    • Alumni Network
    • Alumni Services
    • Classes
    • Interest Inventory
    • Internships
    • Regional Alumni
    Opportunities at School
    • Coop
    • Experiential
    • Internship

  • ROI & Outcomes

    Information from PayScale:
    Starting Median Salary (Up to Bachelor's degree completed, only)
    $59400
    Mid-Career Median Salary (Up to Bachelor's degree completed, only)
    $106900
    Starting Median Salary (At least Bachelor's degree)
    $61400
    Mid-Career Median Salary (At least Bachelor's degree)
    $109500
    Percent High Job Meaning
    50%
    Percent STEM
    7%
    • Return on Investment (ROI) rating 86/99

    Contact & Visit

    • Campus Tours

      Campus Visiting Center
      • Monday-Friday
      • 8am-5pm
      • (310) 506-4392
      Campus Tours
      • Appointment Required: Yes
      • Dates: Year-round
      • Times: Mon?Fri
      • 10 AM, 1 PM, & 2 PM
      • Average Length: 2 hours

    • On Campus Interview

      Campus Interviews
      No
      Information Sessions
      Available
      Times
      Sept-Nov. in locations throughout the U.S.
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