Pacific @ a glance

Facts and Figures

• Pacific Founded July 10, 1851, California’s First Chartered University
• 80 + Undergraduate Majors and 18 Graduate Programs in 10 Schools and Colleges
• 4-year private, co-educational university, with a dental school in San Francisco and a law school in Sacramento
• Four-Year Graduation Guarantee for incoming freshmen
• Traditional brick and ivy campus, 175 acres with more than 100 species of regional and international trees.
• The campus has been the setting for more than a dozen movies, including Raiders of the Lost Ark.

• Average GPA: 3.49 (Unweighted, Grades 9-12)
   
• Average SAT (Combined Verbal and Math) : 1189
  (SAT Writing is not used for admission evaluation)
   
• Average ACT Composite Scores: 26

• Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 13:1
• Average Class Size: 18 (62% <20 enrolled)
• Full-time Faculty, Stockton Campus: 434
• Faculty Holding Terminal or Doctorate Degree: 88%

• Undergraduate (Stockton): 3,501
• University Wide: 6,401
  Stockton: 4,806
  Sacramento (Law): 1,081
  San Francisco (Dentistry): 514

Student Demographics
(Fall 2009)

Geographic Distribution:

• 84% from California
• 16% from 30 other states, foreign countries and unknown

• Caucasian: 35%
• Asian / Pacific Islander: 35%
• Hispanic: 12%
• International / Non-resident: 4%
• African American: 4%
• American Indian: 1%
• Multi-Ethnic 5%
• Unknown 5%

• Female: 55%
• Male: 45%

• Percentage of students receiving
  financial assistance: 81%
• Tuition and fees (2009/10): $31,730
• Required Fees (2009/10): $500
• Room and Board (2009/10): $10,616

• Population: 290,000
• Centrally located on the California Delta in the heart of Northern California, close to Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, and the Pacific Coast
• 80 miles east of San Francisco
• 45 miles south of Sacramento

A comprehensive list of facts and figure about Pacific can be found on our Fast Facts page.