Established in 1968
Accredited by the Western Association of
Schools of Colleges (WASC) since 1981

ENROLLMENT
1,149 total enrollment

ENTERING STUDENT BODY, FALL 2007
75 percent women
25 percent men
20 percent students of color
9 percent international

FACULTY
48 full-time core faculty
15 part-time core faculty

LIBRARY
More than 35,000 volumes
300 journals
1300 audio and video titles

ALUMNI
3,100 undergraduate and graduate alumni

Did You Know...

...that the American Academy of Asian Studies, the first incarnation of CIIS, was one of the major catalysts of the countercultural movements that came out of San Francisco in the 1950's and 60's?

...that the Integral Counseling Psychology program at CIIS was the first East-West, transpersonal psychology graduate program in the world?

...that the Drama Therapy program at CIIS is one of only two approved, accredited graduate level drama therapy programs in the United States?

...that Don Hanlon Johnson, faculty member in the School of Professional Psychology, founded the first graduate degree program in the field of Somatics?

...that Ralph Metzner, formerly the Institute's academic dean and academic vice president, co-authored the pioneering work, The Psychedelic Experience, in 1964 with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass)?

...that Charlene Spretnak's pioneering work in ecological thought and social criticism has helped frame the Green politics movements in America?

...that Angeles Arrien, Alexander and Helen Astin, Thomas Berry, Carol P. Christ, Riane Eisler, Winston Franklin, Joan Halifax, Michael Harner, Stanley Krippner, Joanna Macy, Jacob Needleman, Vicki Noble, Ram Dass, Theodore Roszak, Huston Smith, Robert A.F. Thurman, John Welwood, and Cecil Williams all serve as members of CIIS's Council of Sages?

...that CIIS was the first school in California to provide matching educational awards to AmeriCorps volunteers?

...CIIS was one of the first accredited educational institutions to offer online doctoral programs in the world?