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Whittier College is a 4-year private liberal arts college located in Southern California between bustling Los Angeles and beautiful Orange County.
Hoover Hall and Library. Whittier College is a private liberal arts college in Whittier, California.It is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and, as of spring 2024, had 815 undergraduate and graduate students. It was founded in 1887. Whittier offers one graduate degree and a master's degree in education.
Whittier College is committed to ensuring the accessibility of its web content to people with disabilities. We strive to meet W3C WAI’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, Level AA conformance.
Whittier College is committed to ensuring the accessibility of its web content to people with disabilities. We strive to meet W3C WAI’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, Level AA conformance.
Whittier College
A Whittier College education is transformative. When you graduate in four short years, you will be a different person than when you entered. You will be exposed to a range of people and ideas that will cause you to think about and question who you are and the roles you can and will play in bettering society. You will quickly experience the fact that learning is an exercise in complexity.
Whittier College qualifies citizens of countries other than the United States, students who attend a U.S. high school or college but have a foreign passport, and U.S. citizens attending high school or college abroad as International Students.
Founded by members of the Religious Society of Friends in 1887 and named in honor of the Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, Whittier College continues to honor its Quaker heritage through a commitment to community, diversity, and finding common ground with people the world over. The College, however, has been secular since the 1940s.
Just a few blocks from the College, Uptown Whittier boasts 64 cafes and restaurants, a movie theater, 17 clothing stores, a farmer’s market, and dozens more shops for students to explore and enjoy.
By the Numbers. Founded in 1887. Located in Whittier, California (18 miles southeast of Downtown Los Angeles, 16 miles northwest of Anaheim). Campus size: over 75 acres Undergraduate Enrollment: 815 Graduate Enrollment: 62 Average Classroom Size: 11 students (50% of classes have less than 20) Student to Faculty Ratio: 8 to 1 Race/Ethnicity (IPEDS)*
