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Pacifica Graduate Institute

Santa Barbara CA, California Private for-profit 4-year Rural area

Overview

Located in Santa Barbara CA, California, Pacifica Graduate Institute is a private for-profit four-year institution. Its campus is in a rural area. It enrolled 833 students in fall 2024.

Pacifica Graduate Institute offers master's degrees and doctoral degrees across 4 programs. Its largest programs by number of graduates are Counseling Psychology, Psychology, Other, and Humanities. It awarded 210 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

Mission

The mission of Pacifica Graduate Institute is to provide graduate degree programs and to foster research in the fields of psychology and mythological studies framed in the traditions of depth psychology. The Institute seeks to fulfill this purpose by creating an educational environment which nourishes respect for cultural diversity and individual differences and an academic community which fosters for its faculty and students a spirit of free and open inquiry consistent with the recognized values of academic freedom.

Mission statement as reported by Pacifica Graduate Institute

Key figures

833
Students enrolled
210
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
4
Programs and majors

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Delivery modes

CampusOnlineHybrid

Program levels

MasterPhD

Programs and majors offered 4

Graduate counts are degrees and certificates awarded in each program between July 2024 and June 2025. Largest fields are listed first.

Psychology 3
Liberal Arts and General Studies 1

Degrees and certificates awarded

Awards conferred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Master's degrees
149
Doctoral degrees (research)
61

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
833
Graduate students, fall 2024
833
Full-time, fall 2024
67%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
916
Graduate students, 2024-25
916
Full-time, 2024-25
67%
Size category
Under 1,000 students

Student body

Share of all students enrolled during 2024-25. Small groups can round to zero and are not listed.

Women
73%
Men
27%
White
51%
Hispanic or Latino
8%
Black or African American
3%
Asian
3%
Two or more races
5%
American Indian or Alaska Native
1%
International (U.S. nonresident)
2%
Race or ethnicity unknown
27%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

Programs with a fully online option
1
Online graduate programs
Yes
Students studying fully online
2%
Students taking some online courses
0%

Campus and services

Setting
Rural area
Academic calendar
Quarter
Carnegie classification
Special Focus Four-Year: Other Health Professions Schools
Interim President
Colin Marlaire
For veterans and service members
Yellow Ribbon Program

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