Palo Alto University (PAU)

Palo Alto University, celebrating its 40^th years of success, was founded in 1975 under the name Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. Established with the motto “Engaging Minds, Improving Lives”, it is committed to improve lives of people via education and research attached among psychology, clinical training and practice among diversified cultures and services.

Palo Alto University is a private, nonprofit educational institution and an independent professional school, continuously being accredited by the Western Association of School and Colleges since 1986. PGSP was later named Palo Alto University in August 2009. Since then, it has been creating efficient leaders for the benefit of the society.

Palo Alto University offers several undergraduate and graduate programs. It offers programs on business psychology, science, clinical psychology and social action. It also offers Ph.D. and Psy.D. training programs. It facilitates three types of learning offering: Traditional Classroom Offering, Hybrid Offering (Night/Weekend Classes) and Online Offering. These offerings are not available for every program or degree types.

In order to join PAU, one must have completed their previous academic programs and secured pre mentioned amount of score. Only then, a student can be enrolled in the Palo Alto University after further successful processing.

Palo Alto has received numerous remunerations. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award was given to PAU from ‘INSIGHT into Diversity magazine’. Palo Alto received this award on the basis of its notable diversity and inclusion initiatives, and its ability to clinch diversity of gender, ethnicity, veterans, race, people with disabilities and member of LGBT community.

Palo Alto University has several international collaborations. Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (PGSP) and the Stanford University School of Medicine partnered in 2002, with the objective of creating a practitioner-scholar training program for students graduated in clinical psychology, grounded in evidence-based practice. PGSP-StanfordPsy. D. Consortium students are fully registered at Palo Alto University. They attend a 50% Stanford affiliated Psy. D. Program. They have access to certain resources and training programs at each of the two institutions.

PAU supports local, clinical practicum training in China and Latin America for students participating in PAU’s online M.A. Counseling Program. It also has collaborations with Palo Alto Medical Center, the Department of Veterans Affairs and other mental health care organizations. Palo Alto sponsors numerous academic centers working for child mental health, internet-based global healthcare and evidence based care for LGBTQ client. PAU is also developing programs to assist genocide survivors in Rwanda. So, Palo Alto University is not only providing quality education, it is also developing and helping the society, community and the nation as a whole.

With a reasonable amount of graduate rate, Paulo Alto is dedicated to education and development with primary emphasis in the behavioral and social sciences. It aims in promoting future innovators and leaders for the welfare and benefit of the society. It foresees to generate knowledge through research and scholarship of the highest level. This is all in order to provide services to the community well-versed by science and scholarship.