page_title: California Lutheran University
section_title: Academic
hierarchical_section_title: California Lutheran University / Academic
caption_attribution_description: English: CLU SWENSON CENTER
context_page_description: California Lutheran University is a private liberal arts university in Thousand Oaks, California. It was founded in 1959 and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, but is nonsectarian. It opened in 1960 as California Lutheran College and was California's first four-year liberal arts college and the first four-year private college in Ventura County. It changed its name to California Lutheran University on January 1, 1986.
  It is located on a 290-acre campus, 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles. It offers degrees at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels, as well as post-master's and post-bachelor's certificates. CLU offers 36 majors and 34 minors. The university is based in Thousand Oaks, with additional locations in Woodland Hills, Westlake Village, Oxnard, Santa Maria, and Berkeley.
  Notable speakers at CLU have included U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and George H. W. Bush. CLU hosted the preseason training camp for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League for 27 years and serves as the year-round training site for the Los Angeles Rams.
context_section_description: California Lutheran University has five academic divisions:
  College of Arts and Sciences
  School of Management
  Graduate School of Education
  Graduate School of Psychology
  Adult Evening program
  Across all divisions, class sizes are kept small — 16 students on average. CLU offers undergraduate students either a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science degree, depending on their field of study, in 36 academic majors and 36 minors, with the ability to double-major. Additionally, a program for working professionals returning to college enables students to complete bachelor's degrees via evening and online courses.
  The university's Graduate and Continuing Education Program had a modest beginning in 1970 but grew under the direction of John Cooper. At its beginning, the graduate program offered degrees in Administration of Justice, Business Administration, Education, and later Educational Psychology, Marriage and Family Counseling, and Public Administration. As of 2016, 1,300 graduate students were pursuing master's degrees in information technology, business, education, psychology, and public policy. There are 30 graduate programs offering credentials, certifications, and doctorate degrees.
  The following degrees are offered:
  Baccalaureate: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
  Master's: Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Education (M.Ed.), Master of Public Policy and Administration (M.P.P.A.), Master of Science (M.S.)
  Doctoral: Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.)
  Additionally, master's and doctoral programs in theology and divinity are offered at the Berkeley facilities through the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS).
caption: Swenson Center for Social and Behavioral Sciences
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