President
Daniel J. Martin
Mission
Seattle Pacific University is a Christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.
Denominational affiliation
SPU is a private university founded in 1891 by the Free Methodist Church of North America. Students and faculty represent more than 50 different Christian denominations.
Location
SPU’s 43-acre city campus is located in a residential neighborhood on the north slope of Queen Anne Hill, only 10 minutes from the heart of downtown Seattle. SPU also owns and operates a wilderness campus and field station on Blakely Island, and a seaside campus/retreat facility on Whidbey Island.
Enrollment
(Statistics are based on Autumn Quarter 2018)
Total enrollment: 3,688
Undergraduate enrollment: 2,887
Post-baccalaureate enrollment: 24
Graduate enrollment: 788
(Summer 2017–Summer 2018)
Continuing education enrollment: 4,297
Academic programs offered
Undergraduate majors: 69
Undergraduate minors: 55
Master’s degree programs: 31
Doctoral degree programs: 6
Graduate certificates: 7
Students
(undergraduate through doctoral)
Average age of students
Undergraduate: 20
Post-baccalaureate: 36
Master’s: 32
Doctoral: 33
Gender
Men: 33%
Women: 67%
Student-faculty ratio
13:1 (based on Common Data Set definition)
Undergraduate information
Average high school GPA
Entering freshmen: 3.51
Entering transfers: 3.23
Average SAT scores of entering freshmen
National average: 1060
Washington state average: 1075
SPU average: 1154
Class size
80 percent of Autumn Quarter 2018 undergraduate classes had enrollments of 30 or less.
Ethnic diversity
44% (undergraduate ethnic minority students)
Retention rate
79% (based on first-year persistence)
Six-year graduation rate
68% (reported Autumn 2018)
Top 10 undergraduate programs
By number of students enrolled Autumn Quarter and accepted into a major:
- Business Administration
- Psychology
- Nursing
- Computer Science
- Communication
- Physiology
- English
- General Engineering
- Political Science
- Exercise Science
More information
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(Updated October 29, 2018)