University of the Pacific (June 24, 2025)

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University of the Pacific

Stockton, CA

6.24.25 Campus Visit Report

Lindsay Woodard - San Marcos High School




Campus Quad

Campus Quad

Campus Quad

Bell Tower





Echoing Columns

Building Exterior

One of Many Lawns

One of Many Lawns



ADMISSIONS

  • Application on the website opens July 1

    • Also on the Common App

  • Nov 15

    • Early Action deadline

    • Deadline for Pre-Pharmacy and Pre-Dental

  • Jan 15

    • Regular Decision deadline

  • Direction Admissions offered on Common App and Niche

  • If applying with the Common App, the personal essay is required, but there are no UoP-specific essays

  • Transcript is required

  • Letters of rec are optional

  • SAT/ACT optional

  • 3,500 undergrads

  • 10% international students


Solar Panels

EV Chargers

Makerspace Exterior

Makerspace





Makerspace

Makerspace

Makerspace

Makerspace

Makerspace

Makerspace


ACADEMICS

  • Four-year graduation guarantee

  • Most popular majors are engineering (multiple types, which is very impressive for a school of this size!), pre-dental, and pre-pharmacy

  • Music Therapy major (unusual for an undergrad major)

  • Guaranteed acceptance to law school with minimum GPA and no LSAT score

  • Lecture classes average 60 students

  • The tour guide’s smallest class so far has been 15 students

  • Average class size is 24

  • All students who want to engage in undergraduate research are able to

  • Early assurance program for med school with Touro University (DO program)

    • 50 seats

    • 3.5+ GPA

    • 502 min on MCAT

  • Pathway to guaranteed law school admission

  • Humanities Scholars program

    • Can design own major

    • Cultural field trips

  • On-campus speech clinic as well as a partnership with one off-campus one for the speech-language pathology students to do their clinicals

  • Special programming for first-generation college students that requires a separate application

    • Grants available for these students

    • Lots of additional advising

  • Honors program

  • Most programs require an internship or research

  • Engineering majors requires a co-op

    • Spring + summer OR summer + fall

  • More than 70% of all students engage in some form of experiential learning

  • Care Managers

    • Provide academic, social, personal, and professional development opportunities

  • Students are not cleared to register for classes until they have met with their academic advisor


CAREER

  • Career Services leverages the alumni network for internships and jobs

  • University of the Pacific is the oldest college in California, so it has a huge alumni network

  • Career closet

  • Career services are available for life

  • UoP grads are in the 2% of earnings of all college grads in the US


New First-Year Residence Hall Being Built

Library Makerspace

Library Short Story Dispenser

Movie Theatre





On-Campus Market

Hammocks

Student Union

Dining Commons


SOCIAL

  • D1 athletics

    • 17 sports

    • Ranked #5 for men’s water polo

    • Basketball and aquatic sports are the most well-attended

  • More emphasis on academics than parties

  • Solar Car Club

  • Pacific Motorsports Club

  • 11 social and 15 professional Greek organizations

    • There are Greek houses on campus

  • Competitive esports


Campus Apartment Building

Residence Hall Exterior

One of Several Greek Houses

Residence Hall Show Room





Morris Chapel

Morris Chapel



CAMPUS

  • 175 acres

  • AAPI- and Hispanic-Serving Institution

  • SUCCESS TRiO campus

  • Sacramento campus has law school and health sciences graduate programs

  • San Francisco campus has dental school

  • ZipCars available for students

  • Shuttle service on Fridays and Saturdays as well as shuttle service to the airport for Thanksgiving and winter breaks

  • Rideshare system on campus from 6pm-2am

  • Students are required to live on campus for the first two years

    • 12 residence halls

    • 5 apartment complexes

    • Easy to live on campus all four years

    • Housing grants are available

    • Gender-inclusive housing is available

    • Single rooms are available

    • All residence halls have air conditioning

    • Second-years and above can live in the apartment-style residence halls

    • Some co-ed floors in the residence halls; the rest are gender-specific

  • First-years can have a car on campus

  • 20-30% of students commute

  • Easy walk to grocery store, shops, and restaurants on one side of campus

  • The remaining sides of campus are nice, residential neighborhoods

  • Greenhouse

  • Huge focus on sustainability

  • Large makerspace open to all students

  • Radio station

  • Library 

    • Hours are 7am-2am & 24/7 during finals

    • There’s a Starbucks

    • Gaming center in basement in the evenings

  • Movie theatre is free and holds 100 people

    • Concessions stand

  • 15-min walk to Target or take the shuttle on Fridays and Saturdays

  • 5-min walk to SaveMart (like a mini Vons)

  • Fitness Center

    • Group classes

    • Rock wall

    • 6am-11pm


FINANCIAL

  • 78% of students receive merit scholarships of $20-28k on average, but they go up to $30k

    • Min 2.0 GPA

    • Holistic evaluation for merit scholarships

  • The competitive Power Scholars scholarship is $43k (full tuition)

    • Around 10 students per year win it

    • $5k for independent research

    • $2.5k for study abroad

    • 3.8+ GPA

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