California Colleges and Universities

California Top Colleges

Listed below is a list of both public and private colleges and universities for the state of California.

Two of the most popular large public universities are the University of Southern California (A.K.A. USC), located in # Los Angeles, CA (90089) and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

San Diego State University, in San Diego is a slightly smaller public university in California.  A very popular private university would of course be Stanford University in Stanford (Palo Alto), California 94305.

A handful of smaller private California Colleges & Universities are: California Institute of Technology (CalTech) in Pasadena, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Pepperdine University in Malibu and Scripps College in Claremont California.

• Alliant International University
• Antioch University-Los Angeles
• Art Center College of Design
• Azusa Pacific University
• Bethany College
• Bethesda Christian University
• Biola University
• California Baptist University
• California College of the Arts
• California College San Diego
• California Institute of the Arts
• California Institute of Integral Studies
• California Institute of Technology
• California Lutheran University
• California Pacific University
• California State University System
  • Bakersfield
  • California Maritime Academy
  • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  • California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  • Channel Islands
  • Chico
  • Dominguez Hills
  • East Bay
  • Fresno
  • Fullerton
  • Long Beach
  • Los Angeles
  • Monterey Bay
  • Northridge
  • Sacramento
  • San Bernardino
  • San Marcos
  • Stanislaus
  • Humboldt State University
  • San Diego State University
  • San Francisco State University
  • San José State University
  • Sonoma State University
• Chapman University
• Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science
• Church Divinity School of the Pacific
• Claremont Consortium of Colleges
  • Claremont Graduate University
  • Claremont McKenna College
  • Harvey Mudd College
  • Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
  • Pitzer College
  • Pomona College
  • Scripps College
• Cogswell Polytechnical College
• Concordia University-Irvine
• Defense Language Institute
• DeVry University-Long Beach
• DeVry University-Pomona
• Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology
• Dominican University of California
• Fielding Graduate Institute
• Franciscan School of Theology
• Fresno Pacific University
• Fuller Theological Seminary
• Golden Gate University
• Graduate Theological Union
• Holy Names University
• Hope International University
• Humphreys College
• Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
• Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
• John F. Kennedy University
• La Sierra University
• Life Pacific College
• Lincoln University
• Loma Linda University
• Loyola Marymount University
• Marymount College
• Masters in Divinity
• The Master’s College
• The Master’s Seminary
• Menlo College
• Mills College
• Monterey Institute of International Studies
• Mount St. Mary’s College
• National Hispanic University
• National University
• Naval Postgraduate School
• New College of California
• Notre Dame de Namur University
• Occidental College
• Otis College of Art & Design
• Pacific Oaks College
• Pacific Union College
• Pacifica Graduate Institute
• Pardee RAND Graduate School
• Patten College
• Pepperdine University
• Platt College
• Point Loma Nazarene University
• Saint Mary’s College of California
• Samuel Merritt College
• San Diego Christian College
• Santa Clara University
• Saybrook Graduate School & Research Center
• Simpson University
• Soka University of America
• Southern California Institute of Architecture
• Southwestern University School of Law
• Stanford University
• Thomas Aquinas College
• University of California System
  • Berkeley
  • Davis
  • Hastings College of the Law
  • Irvine
  • Los Angeles
  • Merced
  • Riverside
  • San Diego
  • San Francisco
  • Santa Barbara
  • Santa Cruz
• American Jewish University
• University of La Verne
• University of Northern California
• University of the Pacific
• University of Redlands
• University of San Diego
• University of San Francisco
• University of Southern California
• Vanguard University of Southern California
• Western State University College of Law
• Western University of Health Sciences
• Westminster Seminary California
• Westmont College
• Whittier College
• William Howard Taft University
• William Jessup University
• Woodbury University