12 Facts About Pepperdine University

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Pepperdine University is a private research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ with its main campus in Los Angeles County, California.

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Pepperdine University is composed of an undergraduate liberal arts school and four graduate schools: the Caruso School of Law, the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, the Graziadio Business School, and the School of Public Policy.

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In February 1937, against the backdrop of the Great Depression, George Pepperdine University founded a liberal arts college in the city of Los Angeles to be affiliated with the Churches of Christ and to be called—to the founder's embarrassment—George Pepperdine University College.

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Pepperdine University favored the Westlake Village location until the Adamson-Rindge family, who owned hundreds of acres near Malibu, offered to donate 138 acres and to sell 58.

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Pepperdine University retained and continued to expand its original Vermont Avenue campus, building a new academic building there in 1970, and redesigning the curriculum to serve its more urban setting.

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In 1969, Pepperdine bought the Orange University College of Law in Santa Ana, California, which became the School of Law and moved to the Malibu campus in 1978.

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Pepperdine University continued to expand, adding permanent international programs in London and in Florence beginning in 1984 and 1985, respectively.

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Pepperdine University owns and operates permanent satellite campuses in five countries, with each campus offering semester- and year-long programs for students of Seaver College.

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9.

Pepperdine University was ranked number 1 in the Institute of International Education's 2015 Open Doors Report, with 86.

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Pepperdine University was one of 23 schools to receive an "A" grade, which is assigned to schools that include at least six of the seven designated subjects in their core curriculum.

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Pepperdine University is often ranked by the NACDA Director's Cup as having one of the most successful athletic programs for non-football Division I schools, ranking first on three occasions and finishing in the top three eight times in the last fifteen years.

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12.

Notable alumni of Pepperdine University include prominent scientists, musicians, businessmen and women, engineers, architects, athletes, actors, politicians, and those who have gained both national and international success.

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