Professional Growth (With a Paycheck)
InternLA, Oxy’s signature summer internship program, offers students professional development training and a chance to explore career interests.Experiential Learning
Oxy faculty and students seek ways to link theory to practice, and to provide real-world applications to the ideas discussed in class.Welcome to Oxy
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Liberal Arts in Los Angeles
Drawing on the cultural and intellectual resources of a global city,
Occidental provides a springboard for putting theory into practice and ideas into action.
Explore Your Passions
Oxy’s remarkable faculty of scholars, teachers and mentors are at the heart of the intellectual experience. An Oxy liberal arts education transcends boundaries, and with more than 40 majors and programs, academic rigor comes in many forms.
Academic Spotlight
The office provides guidance to those pursuing merit-based awards and promotes Oxy’s proud tradition of extended, in-depth scholarship.
Discover Occidental
A vibrant, small liberal arts college experience in the heart of Los Angeles, one of the most stimulating and creative cities in the world. That’s something you won’t find anywhere else.
The Oxy Community
Whether in the lab, classroom, field or community, our faculty, students and alumni define the strengths and uniqueness of Oxy in everything that they do.
Student
Máté Major came to Oxy from Hungary, succumbing to the siren call of the Comparative Studies in Literature & Culture department. Diving in deep through the Summer Research Program, he hasn’t looked back.
Máté Major
Comparative Studies in Literature & Culture | Class of 2022
Student
Rahsaan Middleton has worked to build community on campus through his involvement with the Muslim Student Association.
Rahsaan Middleton
Biology | Class of 2019
Student
Math major Kate Grossmann studied abroad in Hungary through the uniquely rigorous Budapest Semester in Mathematics program, which introduced her to a new culture and showed her what it means to seriously pursue math.
Kate Grossmann
Mathematics | Class of 2020
Faculty
From music to computer programming and back again, Jongnic Bontemps has found a way to parlay his liberal arts education into a career that satisfies his passions and pays the bills. Teaching at Oxy is icing on the cake.
Jongnic Bontemps
Music
Alumni
Marissa Chan has aspired to be an environmental epidemiologist since she was 17. Committed to fighting environmental injustices that disproportionately affect some communities, she’s on her way to Harvard for graduate training.
Marissa Chan ’17
Urban & Environmental Policy, Public Health | Class of 2017
Alumni
A cognitive science major at Oxy, Besher Ashouri is a now a student at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Besher Ashouri ’18
Cognitive Science | Class of 2018
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Gabrielle Saliamonas '20 never pole vaulted prior to coming to Oxy. But thanks to some encouragement from a new friend and confidence from coaches, she discovered a newfound love on the track. https...
Over 10 weeks this summer, Oxy students had the chance to gain real-world professional experience and explore their career interests—all while getting a paycheck. #InternLA https://t.co/zEAGZOseyV
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