University of the Pacific

Stockton, United States

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Established in 1851.

University of the Pacific is a private university in Stockton, California. It was first chartered on July 10, 1851, in Santa Clara under the name California Wesleyan College, but it was later moved to San Jose, and then to Stockton in 1923.

Pacific is the oldest chartered university in California. In addition to its liberal arts college, and its schools of education, engineering, business, international studies and music, it has three professional graduate schools: the School of Dentistry in San Francisco, the School of Law in Sacramento, and the school of Pharmacy and Health Sciences located in Stockton.