Welcome to the University of La Verne. I am pleased you have chosen to visit us through our Web site, a virtual window to our university. I invite you to also come visit our campus so you can fully appreciate its beauty and encounter the active and engaging life that awaits all who attend La Verne.

Our university’s mission to provide a people-centered, values-based, quality education has remained unchanged since 1891. Whether you are a recent high school graduate, a transfer student, an advanced degree seeker or an adult learner, you are a welcome and valued member of our student community.

The faculty at La Verne brings experience and expertise into the classroom with a commitment to interactive teaching as they help students to learn, develop and realize their potential. Our graduates enter society equipped with the ability to think critically and prepared for the challenges and opportunities they will face, endowed with time-tested values and instilled with a sense of responsibility to contribute to their community and their chosen professions.

At La Verne, we encourage our students to enjoy the entire college experience. We urge them to embrace the marvelous diversity here mirroring that found throughout Southern California. And we exhort them to learn more about themselves and others through participation in co-curricular activities such as athletics, the arts, student government, service projects, and a wide variety of student clubs and organizations.

As a graduate of this exceptional institution, I can personally speak to the benefits I gained during my time at La Verne. While there have been many changes and advancements since my student days, the personalized learning I received remains a fundamental part of the educational experience we provide.

Our intent is for this university to be recognized as a source of lifelong learning and as a regional resource. La Verne is proud of its 50,000-plus alumni serving their professions and their communities with distinction in all 50 states and 33 nations around the world.

I encourage you to explore this site, where you will find detailed information on everything our university has to offer. I again invite you to visit the campus to best experience the people, places and programs that make us special and to discover how you can become part the extended La Verne family.

Stephen C. Morgan
President