Azusa Pacific University (APU) is a private, inter-denominational, evangelical Christian university amid abreast Los Angeles in burghal Azusa, California, USA. With over 6,500 students, APU's undergraduate apprentice physique is the better in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and the additional better evangelical undergraduate apprentice physique in the United States. APU holds bounded accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).The university was founded in 1899, with classes aperture on March 3, 1900 in Whittier, California. It began alms degrees in 1939. While clearly inter-denominational, APU has ties with several
evangelical denominations.The university's seminary, the Graduate School of Theology, holds to a Wesleyan-Arminian doctrinal theology.
Azusa Pacific University is organized into three colleges and seven schools. The academics programs are accessible from the Honors College, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Music and the Arts, Leung School of Accounting, School of Adult and Professional Studies, School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences, School of Business and Management, School of Education, School of Nursing, and School of Theology.
APU offers three libraries on its capital campus and six off-campus libraries acknowledging bookish programs at the APU Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, and Murrieta Bounded Centers. The capital campus libraries are the William V. Marshburn Library, Hugh and Hazel Darling Library, and Stamps Theological Library, and accommodate a book accumulating of added than 215,000 books and media, 1,800 journal titles, and 630,000 microforms. The university arrangement aswell provides admission to 100 online databases, which cover 12,000 full-text journal titles and 23,000 cyberbanking books.APU's Special Collections, including actual documents, are housed in the Thomas F. Andrews Room of the Hugh and Hazel Darling Library.