About Oxy
Occidental isn’t just any liberal arts college. It fully integrates the liberal arts and sciences with the cultural and intellectual resources of a global city.New Issue of Occidental Magazine
Cowboys ride in Compton, Oxy alumni combat COVID-19, faculty reimagine the remote learning experience, and meet members of the Class of 2024.Visit Campus Virtually
You can still experience Oxy’s beautiful campus virtually through interactive tours, photo galleries or a video featuring some of our student tour guides.
COVID-19 Updates & Information
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
Oxy provides resources and in-depth advisement to students and alumni who are interested in graduate programs in health and law.
96%
faculty holding terminal or doctoral degree
9:1
student to faculty ratio
21%
student-athletes at Oxy
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 extragalactic astrophysicist Sabrina Stierwalt of physics, who observes galaxies beyond our own to understand how they form and evolve—and ultimately understand our own cosmic origins.
Sabrina Stierwalt
Physics
Alumni
A mission-driven serial entrepreneur, Twister Biotech president and CEO Chris Coker is focused on using nanotechnology and non-viral gene therapy to tackle intractable diseases.
Chris Coker ’95
Economics | Class of 1995
Student
Coming to Oxy with plans to pursue chemical engineering, the liberal arts took Lynn He in unexpected directions. Her classes and professors helped her discover new passions and blend them with existing ones, forging a path she says better reflects who she is.
Lynn He
Chemistry, Art & Art History | Class of 2019
Faculty
Meet Madeline Baer of Diplomacy & World Affairs, whose teaching interests include global political economy, human rights, the politics of globalization and development, and Latin American politics.
Madeline Baer
Diplomacy & World Affairs
Student
Kevin Conroy, a history and East Asian studies major, has leveraged various funding opportunities at Oxy to research his Chinese family history and conduct oral histories about the era of the Cultural Revolution.
Kevin Conroy
History, East Asian Studies, Chinese Studies | Class of 2020
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
What’s Happening at Oxy
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Fall 2021 Study Abroad Info Session
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Dec1
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Destress Study Fest
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Dec8
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A Conversation with President Elam
(All day)
Dec8
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Study Abroad Info Session
4:00pm - 4:30pm
From the John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy comes a new podcast covering community activism, social justice and education. Listen to the first four episodes now. https://t....
For two consecutive springs, Assistant Professor of Geology Darren Larsen and geology major @ariablumm '19 skied seven miles up to Delta Lake to analyze climate shifts. Congrats to their research...
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