Undergraduate Admissions for the College of Arts and Sciences
"I could have gone to an ivy league school where I would have been a number, but at AJU I attended classes with fewer than 10 people. The professors don’t address the classroom, they engage each of us in dialogue."
CAS at AJU is one of the premier liberal arts colleges in California
7:1 student-faculty ratio
Over 95% graduate school placement rate
Distinguished, caring, accessible faculty
Personalized internships designed to meet your individual interests
Innovative mentor program
Numerous scholarships
Individualized attention—you will never be a number at AJU
Areas of Study
Majors listed in bold, followed by program focus and/or minors and concentrations, are examples and not representative of the entirety of possibilities.
Behavioral Sciences: Psychology, Culture & Health, Intergroup Relations and Conflict
Bioethics and Natural Sciences: Premed, Health Sciences
Business: International Business, BA/MBA Program
Literature, Communication and Media: Literature, Journalism, Theatre, Music
Jewish Studies: Modern Jewish Thought, BA/MAEd Program, Classical Judaism
Liberal Studies
Political Science: Global Studies, Middle East Politics and Policy, International Security, Development and Human Security, US Law and Policy
AJU Internships
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Anti-Defamation League, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jewish Television Network, Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, Museum of Tolerance, New Line Cinema, SimonWiesenthal Center
Recent AJU graduates have gone on to:
Medical school
Johns Hopkins, USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Yale, Loyola, University ofWashington, UC San Francisco, Sackler (Tel Aviv) and the Technion (Haifa)
Law school
UC Berkeley, UCLA, Hastings, Loyola, Southwestern, University of Houston, University of San Francisco
Graduate School
Harvard, USC, UCLA, American Jewish University, Brandeis, Pepperdine, Tulane, UC Santa Barbara,
