California Lutheran University Top Questions

Describe your favorite campus traditions.

Sara

California Lutheran University is best known for its involvement with the local community, wonderful professors, variety of extracurricular activities, emphasis on community service, and successful alumni. Alumni take great pride in this university, provide generous donations that fund major projects and support students' financial aid, and frequently return during annual Homecoming and Family Weekend events. Each year, the university sponsors a major service project in which the incoming first-year students clean up a local area. In addition, professors play an active role in fostering student success through effective teaching methods, being easily accessible, and involvement in student activities.

Dorian

California Lutheran University's ranking in the 2012 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (West), 18. California Lutheran University is a selective comprehensive institution dedicated to academic excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and professional fields. Its mission is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice. Rooted in the Lutheran tradition, the university encourages critical inquiry into matters of both faith and reason. CLU provides a challenging academic environment with special strengths in business, education, science and the humanities.

Courtney

My school is best known for their diversity and support of their students. Also, there is a great study abraod program at Cal Lutheran. The school helps you be successful and has a great career services program that helps you figure out what career is best for you. The classes are small and intimate and really helps the students learn to the best of their ability. It is a private college, so it is expensive. However, it is a great school and supports its students in everything they do and want to achieve.

vanessa

CLU is best know for their amazing sports programs, faith and service work.

Shane

My school is best known for the small class sizes, academics, and being close to LA and Hollywood, which is really beneficial for me because I want to work in the film industry. The student body is also really wonderful because they are all relatively outgoing and nice. I like how the classes are around 20-25 students. It is nice to get that small classroom feel. The professors are also really helpful and want the students to succeed. The career service center is also a very helpful place and I have heard many positive things about.

Kaylin

CLU is best known for being a small university with a really great location near LA and Malibu. We have a close community feel with personable staff and faculty. We are known for having high standing academics and challenging classes. Most of the people who live in our community say things like, "CLU students are always the nicest and most rounded students." Many people seek out our students as nannies and personal assistants because they think we are good students and good people.

Kimberly

being a small community, you need a car to get around because not a lot of things are very close by, very competitive, very goal-oriented.

Tiffany

We are know for our sports and physical exercise degrees as well as for our psychology programs. We also hold two yearly events that seem to draw a fair amount of people, one of which is an outdoor Shakespeare festival which features alternating plays, and the other is our Scandinavian festival which has amazing food and adorable activities like fish painting.

Molly

The main feature that brought me to California Lutheran University was the internships available. Being a Film/TV production, the fact that the university provides so many amazing scholarships oppotunities , so close to Los Angeles, was very impressive to me. The university is also well known for their education program, providing a teacher licensure in just five years of schooling, which is something that education majors would find really awesome.

Jessica

Small personal classes. Nice dorms.

James

To me, Cal Lutheran is best known for its close knit community, and helpful amostphere. Coming from the University of Colorado my freshman year, it has been amazing to have such small classes with professors who really have a passion for what they are teaching.

Chloe

Cal Lutheran is best known for its campus-wide emphasis on service to the surrounding community, and to the world. From the very beginning of my experience at CLU, I have been involved in community service projects including beach cleanups and food drives. I have also attended speeches by graduates of CLU who have gone on to positively influence this country by using their degrees to attain careers that allow them to serve in a variety of ways, using their individual talents and gifts.

Kaci

My school is best known for its small class sizes with excellent teaches.

Cassandra

California Lutheran University is known for being a small close-knit community with loyal alumni. The school has a great reputation for helping with the community and enviromental awareness. Also, the school is oftern known for being very family oriented.

Carla

Im not sure what CLU is best known for. The Dallas Cowboys used to practice on the campus during the summer, there is an annual Shakespear festival in the summer as well as a Scandinavian Festival in the Spring. The choirs are amazing and yearly travel and perform in places like New York and the Netherlands.

Tim

My school is best known for the attention the school gives to each student.

Bobby

My school is best known for its sense of community.

Clarissa

Its ESSM and teaching program.