The American Jewish University is the result of a merger in 2007 between the University of Judaism, founded in Los Angeles in 1947, and the Brandeis-Bardin Institute. The AJU currently offers degrees and programs in its College of Arts and Science, the Graduate School of Non Profit Management, the Graduate School of Education, the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and the Whizin Center for Continuing Education. Campuses are located in Bel Air and Simi Valley.
Started in New York City in 1970, Touro College is a Jewish-sponsored independent school of higher education with a campus in West Hollywood established in 2005. Its mission is to perpetuate and enrich the Jewish heritage by offering programs in Jewish studies. It also serves the general community with undergraduate and graduate programs in liberal arts as part of the Jewish tradition to transmit knowledge to the general community and underserved neighborhoods.
Touro University California, located in Vallejo, is affiliated with Touro College. Its degree programs include osteopathic medicine, health sciences, education and pharmacy. It also offers programs for physicians assistants.
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion is located on a five-acre campus in Los Angeles. With its focus on Reform Judaism, the college offers rabbinical and cantorial music programs as well as a School of Education, a School of Jewish Communal Services and a School of Judaic Studies. There's an Institute on Sexual Orientation Issues in the Jewish Community and a Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement. A campus library houses more than 125,000 volumes of Judaica and Hebraica, and a museum boasts 4,000 years of Jewish history and culture through art and artifacts.