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Occidental College | The Liberal Arts College in Los Angeles
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Why I Teach
Teaching is at the heart of the Occidental experience. Hear a few of our faculty members reflect on what they love about their role as educators.
National & International Fellowships
The NIF office connects current Oxy students—and alumni—to funding that supports a wide range of activities, travel, and professional interests.
Turn Curiosity into a Calling
Whatever you dream about doing—working in business, the nonprofit world, medicine or law—your four years at Oxy will serve as a springboard to success.
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
Each fall, Oxy students pursue an in-depth education on our 21st-century global community by directly participating in it via the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
1,886
total enrollment
14%
first-generation students
292
annual average, sunny days in LA
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.
Changing the Climate
With a proactive student body, Occidental College is committed to a more sustainable campus.
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.
Alana Pizarro ’22
Link to story about Alana Pizarro ’22Alana Pizarro joined a fieldwork expedition to Isla Guadalupe, a wind-swept island off the coast of Baja California. The researchers were studying the Guadalupe Island Junco, a small sparrow with unique evolutionary characteristics and a delicate existence.
Nick Graves
Link to story about Nick GravesAn appreciation for the international sphere has dovetailed with an interest in media and television production for Nick Graves ’23. An internship with Disney and the Academy Gold Rising Program is moving him forward along his path.
Nicholas Grebe
Link to story about Nicholas GrebeNicholas Grebe's research interests span the fields of psychology, evolutionary biology, and anthropology. He studies how behavioral and hormonal mechanisms have evolved to support social diversity in humans and non-human primates.
Laura Boykin Okalebo ’96
Link to story about Laura Boykin Okalebo ’96For biologist Laura Boykin Okalebo, Occidental College was a life-changing experience, setting her on a career path that combines science and social justice. Her groundbreaking work in East Africa has empowered thousands of farmers to achieve sustainable livelihoods.
Peter Vartanian
Link to story about Peter VartanianSupported by Occidental through grants and faculty mentorship, Peter Vartanian ’25 is traveling the globe conducting research on the geopolitics of the global transition to green energy, among other topics.
Lydia Harmon
Link to story about Lydia HarmonLydia Harmon '13 is a geologist who studies volcanoes and magma systems. Her work focuses on the magmatic processes and tectonic influences that govern magma formation and eruption.
What’s Happening At Oxy
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Spires, a specialist in early Black print culture, citizenship studies, and African American intellectual history, is an associate professor of English at the University of Delaware.
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Occidental College admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs. For more detailed information please see the College's Notice of Non-Discrimination.
