University of South Los Angeles

About Us

The University of South Los Angeles is a dynamic teaching and learning community that was established in 1993 as a private, nonprofit university.  Our goal is to provide students in South Los Angeles with a variety of affordable programs in the areas of business, theology, and science while encouraging public service, international understanding, and growing an engaged global community of faith.   Our graduate and undergraduate programs are designed to be student-centered and cultivating diverse business and faith leaders and healthcare professionals committed to social justice, equity, and environmental sustainability. 

We are located just south of downtown Los Angeles in the South Bay less than five miles from the beach.  Come visit our campus and meet our dedicated staff, faculty, and students!

Faith Statement

The Bible is the inerrant and divinely inspired word of God. There is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Himself to us in three Persons —the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. God, by his Word and for His glory, freely created the world in six days from nothing and created man and woman, in His own image, that they might have fellowship with Him. Tempted by Satan, the whole human race fell in the fall of the first Adam. All men, until they accept the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior, are lost, darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, hardened in heart, morally and spiritually dead through their trespasses and sins. They cannot see, nor enter the Kingdom of God until they are born again of the Holy Spirit. The only mediator between God and humankind is Jesus Christ our Lord, the eternal Son of God. Jesus Christ revealed his divine love and upheld divine justice through his death in our place, revealing our guilt and reconciling us to God. All have sinned through Adam, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Christ redeemed us from sin through his death on the cross and on the third day he rose bodily from the grave victorious over death and power over darkness.  He ascended to heaven where, at God’s right hand, he intercedes for his people and rules as Lord over all. The true Church is composed of all such persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the body of Christ. The Holy Spirit is a person, and is possessed of all the distinctively divine attributes. He is God. God’s redemptive purpose will be consummated by the return of Christ to raise the dead, to judge all people according to the deeds done in the body and to establish His glorious kingdom. The wicked shall be separated from God’s presence, but the righteous, in glorious bodies, shall live and reign with Him forever.  All those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity exist in the state of conscious, unutterable, endless torment and anguish, in hell. All those who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and their Lord, and who confess Him as such before their fellow man, become children of God and receive eternal life. They become heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ. At death their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness, and at the Second Coming of Christ their bodies shall be raised and transformed into the likeness of the body of His glory. There is a personal devil, a being of cunning and power:  He shall ultimately be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and shall be tormented day and night forever.  The existence of the Creation is not explainable apart from the roles of God as the sovereign creator and sustainer of the entire natural realm. Concepts such as theistic or threshold evolution do not adequately explain God’s creation.

Mission

The University of South Los Angeles is a Christian faith-based university dedicated to preparing students for thoughtful and productive lives of Christian faith, leadership and service. The University, founded upon the belief that all people are enhanced by understanding, is committed to the advancement of learning and the quest for truth; to the sharing of this knowledge through education for a diverse community; and to the application of this knowledge to benefit the people of the state, the nation, and the world.

The University of South Los Angeles recognizes its duty to:
1. Appropriate and give witness to a Christian world view – through action and voice;
2. Provide services and resources to promote student learning, retention, and academic success;
3. Maintain a learning environment that will attract and challenge outstanding students;
4. Prepare its students to succeed in rigorous professional programs;
5. Provide a physical environment and support services that will help members of the university achieve their educational goals, enhance their development, and further serve as a source of pride to the University
6. Enhance the quality of health care in the region;
7. Prepare the next generations of skilled and ethical professionals by providing excellent graduate and professional education that prepares graduates to compete in an expanding world market;
8. Promote a campus environment that welcomes and honors women and men of all races and cultures and an atmosphere that values intellectual curiosity, search for knowledge, and academic freedom and integrity.

The University of South Los Angeles believes that these goals can be attained only through academic programs of superior quality that are served by faculty dedicated to excellence in teaching, nurtured by scholarship and research, and supported by a wide range of university and student life programs.

The University is dedicated to the discovery, development, communication, and application of knowledge in a wide range of academic and professional areas. Its mission of providing superior quality undergraduate and graduate programs is inseparable from its mission of developing new understandings through research and creativity. It prepares students to assume roles in leadership, responsibility, and service to society.

Educational programs at the undergraduate level transmit knowledge and skills to students. At the graduate level, students experience with their instructors the processes of developing and testing new hypotheses and fresh interpretations of knowledge. Education for professional careers, grounded in understanding of relevant sciences, literature and research methods, provides students with the tools to continue intellectual development over a lifetime and to contribute to the needs of a changing society.