Study at Pacifica Graduate Institute

Profile of Pacifica Graduate Institute

The main campus of Pacifica Graduate Institute is in Carpinteria, CA (a medium-sized suburb). The school is a private, for-profit school. Pacifica Graduate Institute offers degrees up to the Doctoral degree.

Course Topics

The school students most commonly major in a field related to therapy and counseling and liberal arts.

Pacifica Graduate Institute Selectivity

Pacifica Graduate Institute does not accept everyone who applies.

Student Enrollment

In 2007, the school had 659 enrolled students. Older students (40+ years old, e.g.) are welcome and common at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Student Life

Meal plans are available.

The school reports its educational mission is:
"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. Pacifica is dedicated to cultivating and harvesting the gifts of the human imagination so that these insights may be brought to bear upon the personal, cultural, and planetary concerns of our era. This dedication is contained in Pacifica's motto: animae mundi colendae gratia (for the sake of tending soul in and of the world)."