Athletics & Wellness
With 21 varsity sports teams and a host of other wellness and fitness activities, Oxy helps you engage both body and mind.Student Life
Oxy offers a vibrant, close-knit liberal arts college experience in the heart of Los Angeles. That’s something you won’t find anywhere else.A Community of Scholars
With small class sizes and professors who are committed to their teaching as well as their research, our students grow as researchers, scholars and people.
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
Through one-on-one counseling and individualized support, pre-law students at Oxy are guided in making well-informed decisions and building important skill sets.
83%
recent grads who participated in service learning at Oxy
58
foreign countries represented
97%
faculty holding a terminal or doctorate degree
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.
Faculty
Meet Hanan Elsayed of Spanish & French Studies, who teaches French and Arabic languages and literatures. Areas of interest include Francophone writers from the Arab world, Arabic short fiction and the legacies of French colonialism.
Hanan Elsayed
Spanish & French Studies
Faculty
Meet Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa of religious studies, who teaches courses on Asian religions, especially Buddhism, and thematic topics related to sexuality and gender, cultural history, material religion and media, empire and politics.
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
Religious Studies
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 Mendoza, 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
Chris Kim
Music
Faculty
Meet Treena Basu of mathematics, who is researching applications of data science in the field of educational data mining and medical data.
Treena Basu
Mathematics
Student
Hannah Hoefs has discovered a love of scientific diving and a home in the marine biology program at Oxy. This summer she spent three weeks in Jamaica with one of her professors, surveying coral reef growth and recovery.
Hannah Hoefs
Marine Biology | Class of 2020
What’s Happening at Oxy
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Final Exams Resume
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OpenRefine and International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
10:00am - 4:00pm
Professors, staff and students celebrated 20 years of Oxy's Undergraduate Research Center this summer, sharing how their love of learning is elevated through this nationally recognized community of...
Join the Occidental Glee Club and Symphony Orchestra for an afternoon of holiday fun tomorrow! The groups present a seasonal concert in Herrick Chapel. ❄️ https://t.co/ugta081RYu
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