Homecoming at Home: October 21-24
Enjoy four days of live virtual events and on-demand content that will bring you inside the Oxy experience and connect you with the Oxy community.Areas of Study
Chart your own path as you choose from 45 majors, minors and programs, including self-designed courses of study and majors with multiple emphases.Oxy Stories: The Oxy Experience
Learn about our faculty and their impactful research, find out what drives our students, and see how our graduates are making an impact in the world.
COVID-19 Updates & Information
A remote semester has been announced for Fall 2020. Read FAQs and get the latest updates on Oxy’s institutional planning on our COVID-19 website.
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
Majors from the department at Oxy talk about their professors, their research projects and the intrinstic beauty of the discipline.
56%
of Oxy graduates pursue master's degrees
3 in 4
students complete an internship while at Oxy
93%
secured a post-graduate opp within 9 months of graduation
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.
Alumni
Morgan Bennett-Smith is currently a master’s student at the Red Sea Research Center, and his studies of coral reef ecology and how reef organisms adapt have taken him (and his camera) all over the world.
Morgan Bennett-Smith ’17
Marine Biology | Class of 2017
Faculty
Meet Seva Rodnyansky of the urban & environmental policy department, who researches economic development, housing, governance, land-use policy, transportation and urban economics.
Seva Rodnyansky
Urban & Environmental Policy
Alumni
Kenturah Davis explores the relationship between words and humanity through her intricate portraiture—and L.A. Metro riders will be seeing a lot more of her work.
Kenturah Davis ’02
Art & Art History | Class of 2002
Student
As a cognitive science major, Sally Zhou’s interdisciplinary path allowed her to perfect her writing skills while working with faculty mentors in the lab and doing an international research project. Now, she’s planning a job in speech language pathology after graduation.
Sally Zhou
Cognitive Science | Class of 2020
Student
Alejo Maggini learned early on in his academic career that education can be a force for change. This has inspired the international student from Argentina to make the most of his time at Oxy, where education is at the center of his studies.
Alejo Maggini
Diplomacy & World Affairs, Education, Economics, Linguistics | Class of 2022
Faculty
Meet Sharla Fett of American Studies (chair), history and Black Studies, who works in the fields of 19th-century Atlantic World slavery, the antebellum U.S. South, and race, gender and health.
Sharla Fett
American Studies, History, Black Studies
What’s Happening at Oxy
Occidental Magazine
Oct24
America/Los_Angeles
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DaniLeigh Virtual Fall Fest 2020
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Oct26
America/Los_Angeles
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Oct27
America/Los_Angeles
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Oxy Abroad Program SIT - Meet the director: Geopolitics & Power
9:00am - 10:00am
Oct27
America/Los_Angeles
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Biology Seminar: Neelou Etesami '14
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Art can change the world, and @Occidental is honored to have fostered the creative lives of alumni like Bob Johnson '77 and Roger Guenveur Smith '77. The two Tigers join President Elam and @OxyArts'...
GOLD alumni (Graduates of the Last Decade 2010-2020) are invited to join trivia host Evan Poirson '09 and celebrate Homecoming with a little competition! Register now for Friday's event. https://t.co...
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