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Pacific University is a private university in Forest Grove, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1849 as the Tualatin Academy , the original Forest Grove campus is 23 miles (37 km) west of Portland . Affiliated with the United Church of Christ , the school maintains three other campuses in Eugene , Hillsboro , and Woodburn , and has an enrollment ...
Azusa Pacific University (APU) is a private evangelical research university in Azusa, California. The university was founded in 1899, with classes opening on March 3, 1900, in Whittier, California , and began offering degrees in 1939.
Seattle Pacific University was founded in 1891 by Free Methodist pioneers to train missionaries for overseas service. [3] Built on land donated by Mr. and Mrs. Nels B. Peterson, the neighborhood was originally known as Ross Station and was annexed to Seattle the same year the college was founded; the school was colloquially referred to as the Ross Seminary during this era. [4]
The School of Engineering was established in 1957. In 1961, the university resumed using the name University of the Pacific. In 1962, Pacific merged with the San Francisco College of Physicians and Surgeons (established in 1896 in San Francisco), and then in 1966, with the McGeorge School of Law (established in 1924 in Sacramento). [14]
Warner Pacific University was the first four-year college or university in Oregon to receive designation as a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. The qualifications to receive this designation is having 25% of students who identify as Latino or Hispanic, and Warner Pacific has 30.1% of their student body who ...
HPU was founded in 1965 as Hawaiʻi Pacific College by Paul C.T. Loo, Eureka Forbes, Elizabeth W. Kellerman, and Reverend Edmond Walker. Wanting a private liberal arts college in Honolulu, the four applied for a charter of incorporation for a not-for-profit corporation to be called Hawaiʻi Pacific College.
Opened in 2011, the school is a branch campus of Western University of Health Sciences' College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, and is operated in partnership with Samaritan Health Services. Graduates of the college receive the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree. The university eventually plans to open additional colleges at the ...
Fresno Pacific University (FPU) is a private Christian university in Fresno, California, United States. [1] It was founded as the Pacific Bible Institute in 1944 by the Pacific District Conference of U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches .