The University was the first collegiate institution to be approved under the qualitative standards mandated by The Educational Reform Act of 1977.

It was the first institution approved by the State of California to offer academic degree programs by home study without residency requirements. The University continues to be a leader in quality distance learning degree programs.

Cal-Pacific students are enrolled in programs designed for the achievement of personal, professional and career goals. Maximum transfer credit is awarded to students entering the Cal-Pacific programs.

Many of our students are returning to the academic experience after some years away from the classroom. This can be stressful because school is often remembered as an arbitrary, trying routine of theoretical lectures and perfunctory tests. These often seem far removed from real life and are punctuated by parking hassles, overcrowded classrooms and an unsympathetic bureaucracy and exorbitant tuition. Many students graduate from traditional colleges owing enormous sums of money on student loans. CPU believes that working adults have earned the right to leave this sort of treatment in the past.

CPU's students are professional men and women whose work environment serves as a living laboratory in which to test and utilize what they study at CPU. They are twenty-first century men and women who recognize the tremendous dollar savings afforded them by earning their degrees from CPU as compared to traditional classroom based instruction.