page_title: Soka University of America
section_title: Academics
hierarchical_section_title: Soka University of America / Academics
caption_attribution_description: English: Student Center, Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California.
context_page_description: Soka University of America is a private university in Aliso Viejo, California. It was established in 2001 by Daisaku Ikeda, the founder of the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist movement, but maintains a secular curriculum which emphasizes pacifism, human rights, and the creative coexistence of nature and humanity.
  A much larger and older sister school, Sōka University in Japan, is located in Hachiōji, Tokyo. SUA encompasses both a four-year liberal arts college and a graduate school offering a Master's program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change. SUA hosts the Pacific Basin Research Center and the academic journal Annals of Scholarship.
  The university has an endowment of $1.2 billion as of 2017, giving it the second-highest endowment per student of any college or university in the United States.
context_section_description: SUA has an 8:1 student/faculty ratio and an average class size of 12.
  The undergraduate college offers a Bachelor of Liberal Arts with emphasis areas in Environmental Studies, Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences, or International Studies. Classrooms typically use seminar methods.
  The graduate school offers a Master of Arts degree in Educational Leadership and Societal Change.
  The Pacific Basin Research Center supports research on the humane and peaceful development of the Asia-Pacific Region, including the Latin American border states. It awards grants and fellowships to researchers studying public policy interactions in the Pacific Rim in such areas as international security, economic and social development, educational and cultural reform, environmental protection and human rights. The Center also sponsors campus conferences, occasional lecture series, and student seminars that extend and support its research activities.
  The academic journal Annals of Scholarship has been edited at SUA since 2005, when humanities professor Marie-Rose Logan joined the faculty. Annals of Scholarship promotes the study of the development of methodological and historical criteria in all the disciplines with an emphasis on the interaction between art practices and the human sciences in a global culture.
caption: Student Center
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