California
Coast University Mission
The Mission of California Coast University is to offer quality
off-campus, non-residential, undergraduate and graduate degree
programs to a special population of self-directed, mid-career
adults, utilizing a combination of distance learning and correspondence
methodologies. California Coast University is committed to
meeting the needs of qualified, highly motivated, independent
students whose geographic, professional or personal time constraints
keep them from completing their education in traditional,
on-campus education programs.
California Coast University is committed to offering a curriculum
which challenges our students to integrate their professional
and life experience with mastery of the academic content required
by their discipline that can be completed through independent,
self-paced instruction under faculty supervision, which does
not require attendance at any specific location, either on
or off campus.
The University is committed to operate ethically and professionally,
with academic integrity and respect for the individual; to
cultivate in our students and graduates the same intellectual,
analytical and critical abilities encouraged by other institutions
of higher learning; and to build students competencies in
areas critical to their success in today's ever changing environment.
California Coast
University History
California Coast University was founded in 1973 to serve the
needs of experienced men and women from all areas of business,
industry, education and others who for various reasons never
finished earning their degree, or whose degree was not balanced
with their professional background and experience.
In the early 1970's the founders of California Coast University
interviewed hundreds of displaced Business, Engineering, and
Aerospace Executives who were having great difficulty re-entering
the job market because they didn't hold appropriate academic
degrees. Many of these people were highly qualified executives,
managers, department heads, and engineers who for one reason
or another never were able to complete college, and now as
adults found it impossible to return to the traditional university
system.
In May 1980 the University became one of California's first
private degree granting institutions to undergo the State's
newly adopted review and approval process and received Full
Institutional Approval was awarded from the Superintendent
of Public Instruction of the Department of Education for all
of the degree programs offered at that time.
In 2004 California Coast University was awarded accreditation
by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and
Training Council (DETC). The DETC has been the standard setting
agency for distance education and home study since 1926. California
Coast University now serves the educational needs of students
in all fifty states and many foreign countries. The student
body has over 8,000 actively enrolled students at any one
time.
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California
Coast University is a pioneer in distance learning since it’s founding
in 1973, and has provided off campus or distance learning programs
to over 30,000 students. The University provides degree completion
programs designed for students whose geographic, professional, or
personal time commitments keep them from completing their education
in traditional on-campus programs. With undergraduate and graduate
degree programs in Business Administration, Management, Psychology
and Graduate degree programs in Business Administration, Education
and Psychology, the University provides students with the necessary
tools, support and guidance to help them complete their degree programs,
as rapidly as time and ability permits.
