Pacific Union College is a fully accredited Seventh-day Adventist Christian liberal arts college, founded in 1882 and located in California's Napa Valley. The college's overall program offers a full l...
Pacific Union College is a fully accredited Seventh-day Adventist Christian liberal arts college, founded in 1882 and located in California's Napa Valley. The college's overall program offers a full lineup of bachelor's degrees as well as several associate degrees, one master's degree, and pre-professional and degree completion programs. In September 2013, PayScale, a provider of compensation data, ranked PUC in the top 13% of colleges in its national 2013 College Education ROI rankings; PUC is the highest-ranked Adventist college on the list. The ROI (return on investment) ranking demonstrates that students who graduate from PUC enjoy a greater earnings gap than students without a four-year degree. PUC's placement in the top 13% nationally shows that its alums earn more on average than graduates from the remaining 77% of colleges and universities. In creating the list, PayScale used data collected from employee surveys evaluated against criteria from the Integrated Post-Secondary Education Data System (IPEDS).