12 Facts About Pepperdine

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

In February 1937, against the backdrop of the Great Depression, George Pepperdine 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 College.

Pepperdine 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.

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.

Pepperdine administrators used these expansions as justification to change the institution's name to Pepperdine University in 1971.

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

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

Pepperdine University is part of the Yellow Ribbon Program for Veterans.

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

Pepperdine 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.

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.

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.