University of the Pacific

The University of the Pacific (Pacific) is a private university in Stockton, California that is the only private school with fewer than 10,000 students to offer degrees from eight different professional schools. Pacific is the oldest chartered university in California. It was the first independent co-educational campus in California, opened the first conservatory of music on the west coast, and founded the first medical school on the West Coast. It was first chartered on July 10, 1851, in Santa Clara, CA under the name California Wesleyan College. The school moved to San Jose in 1871 and then to Stockton in 1923. Pacific is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). In addition to its liberal arts college, and its schools of education, engineering, business, international studies and music, it has three professional graduate schools: the School of Dentistry in San Francisco, the School of Law in Sacramento, and the school of Pharmacy and Health Sciences located in Stockton. Pacific was until 2010 ranked among the top 100 national universities in the United States according to U.S. News & World Report, with its school of law similarly ranked among law schools. It has extensive collections pertaining to jazz musician and alumnus Dave Brubeck, who in 1953 released the live album Jazz at the College of the Pacific. It is also home to the papers of environmental pioneer John Muir.

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