Pacific Union College

Founded in 1882, Pacific Union College is a Seventh-day Adventist Christian college with a strong liberal arts tradition. Located in the heart of California’s Napa Valley, the college offers a fully accredited four-year program and emphasizes academic excellence, authentic spiritual experience, and service to local and worldwide communities.

Pacific Union College is a Seventh-day Adventist learning community offering an excellent Christ-centered education that prepares its students for productive lives of useful human service and uncompromising personal integrity.

Student Life is the gateway to a wide variety of services, opportunities, and information offered to students across campus. Out-of-classroom activities complement, support, and integrate with in-class learning to promote Christian student development.

Student Life is under the direction of the vice president for Student Life and dean of students and is comprised of a number of specific departments with specialized responsibilities. Our goal is to enhance the quality of student life, build community, and help students meet the challenges of their college experience and their intellectual, spiritual, and personal development.

Outstanding academics is a point of pride at Pacific Union College and a key part of our reputation for educating successful students. It connects many aspects of life at PUC, bringing an atmosphere of excellence to the campus and resulting in practical payoffs like acceptance letters and high scores.

Community. Asking big questions. Expressing faith in worship and service.This is a campus with a dedication to honest enquiry, individual experience of faith, and expressing spirituality through active service. Students are constantly involved in prayer and Bible study groups and unique and varied worship services as well as a very active core of service programs and ministry groups.

Pacific Union College is a learning community with a full calendar and a busy campus. Student activity is hardly limited to the classroom, and campus events range from concerts to service projects to prayer gatherings. Excellence here means a broad learning experience, a rich social community, and the experience and exploration of faith and human service.

Student Financial Services is committed to working with you through the sometimes-complicated world of financing your education at PUC. We will connect you with available resources, scholarships, grants and loans to make paying for college easier.

Whether your college fund is older than you are or if your family’s budget always seems to be tight, you probably have lots of questions about financial aid.

We will help you find answers, discover the types of financial aid you’re eligible for, and explain the ins and outs of finding your bottom line. We’ll also pray with you through the entire process, because we know there is no substitute for learning in a true community of faith.

When choosing a college, it makes sense to look at costs, but that is only one factor to consider as you plan for your future. Quality of education, your abilities and interests, and the college's programs, location and alumni success should all play a role in your decision. Your PUC Student Financial Aid Counselor will work with you to find the best combination of options for funding your education.

The PUC Career and Counseling Center provides the campus with career counseling, personal counseling, and testing services. We endorse a holistic approach in working with students by facilitating the integration of the emotional, intellectual, physical, social and spiritual qualities of the individual. We believe that each person is a child of God and is created with a purpose and mission in life. It is our goal to assist each individual client, regardless of race, creed or gender, to work toward reaching his/her potential academically, personally, interpersonally, spiritually and occupationally.

Our career counselor is available to discuss career options, self-assessment, values, skills, interests, goals and job-seeking strategies. We also have resources to help students develop effective interview skills and write resumes and applications letters.

The PUC story begins with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which has long had a strong commitment to education. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the church established schools and colleges near major population centers across North America.

In 1874 the church founded its first college in Battle Creek, Michigan. A few years later, the rapidly growing California church began looking for a good location for a school in Northern California.

One of PUC's major contributions to the Adventist system was the introduction of graduate work in 1934 with the establishment of a very successful summer program called the Advanced Bible School. After the 1936 session, the school was transferred to Washington, D.C., and became the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary.

Today the college's beautiful natural setting and California style continue to welcome hundreds of students each year, offering a community of true learning and spiritual authenticity.