Marymount California University is a private liberal arts university in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, rooted in the Catholic faith. The school welcomes students of all faiths, backgrounds and diversity of experience to build skills for lifelong learning in a supportive community that promotes academic and career success. Students thrive in small, interactive classes guided by engaged faculty wh
o challenge them to explore, create and imagine—as a foundation for their own personal and professional development. Marymount offers undergraduate and graduate programs—in on-campus, online and hybrid formats—that lead to associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers. Students may choose an emphasis in business, criminal justice, digital communication media, psychology, accounting, management, biology or multidisciplinary studies, and add an MBA to any bachelor's degree and graduate in as little as one additional year.