Pepperdine University is a private institution that was founded in the year 1937. It has undergraduate enrollment of around 3,447, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 830 acres. It has a semester-based academic calendar. Pepperdine University is ranked 55 in 2012 edition of the Best Colleges is National Universities.

Squeezed in between Pepperdine University is a Christian college and the Santa Monica Mountain foothills, known for its charming location in Malibu, Calif. The school holds the New Testament based traditions of the Churches of Christ. Students have to attend 14 spiritual events a semester and take at least 3 Bible courses during their time at Pepperdine. The students can also play club sports, like lacrosse and a triathlon group, and a range of intramural sports, from dodgeball to beach volleyball. Approximately 25 percent of students are active in school’s 7 sororities and 5 fraternities, there is no official Greek housing on the campus.

In addition to the main campus in Malibu, Pepperdine University provides graduate courses at California campuses in the Los Angeles, Enrico, Irvine, Santa Clara, and Westlake Village. The school also has facilities in England, Italy, Germany, Argentina, Switzerland, and Washington, DC Beverly Hills is twenty four miles away and Disneyland is fifty fourmiles away from the Pepperdine’s Malibu campus. Los Angeles is around an hour’s drive away. The school has graduated number of top athletes, including baseball player Randy Wolf, basketball player Alex Acker, and golfer Jason Allred, and beach volleyball Olympic medalist Nicole Sanderson, among its many famous alumni.

Campus Location

24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263

General Information

School type-private, coed college
Year founded-1937
Religious affiliation-Church of Christ
Academic calendar-semester
Setting-suburban