Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific University is a place where 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students gain a superb education grounded on the gospel of Jesus Christ — and the tools to influence the world for good. Outstanding scholarship and thoughtful faith is a powerful combination that brings about change in the lives of graduates, and in the people and communities they go on to serve.

Seattle Pacific University is a Christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.

Our vision is “Engaging the Culture, Changing the World.”

Seattle Pacific University undergraduate and graduate programs are known for academic excellence. Classes average 21 students. Professors are renowned scholars who know you by name. Students learn what's happening in the world and how to take action.

Great things happen outside the classroom at Seattle Pacific University — a place where you’ll experience deeper learning, make lifelong friends, and discover new ways to serve and lead.

We believe that Christ calls us to value diversity and to seek ways for all persons in our University community to grow in their individual giftedness and to contribute in meaningful ways to our common life and work. Thus, in all of our diversity, we are centered in Christ, and called by him to shape, model, and participate together in grace-filled community.

At Seattle Pacific University, we believe we are a community called to be the body of Christ. We believe that every person who steps foot on our campus is made in the image of God and is called according to God’s purpose. Both in the Old Testament and in the New, Scripture commands each of us to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Seattle Pacific University was founded by Free Methodist pioneers who valued a non-sectarian approach to education that welcomed all those seeking scholarly excellence rooted in the Christian gospel, and who sought to take the gospel into the world in order to bring about the flourishing of God’s children.

Today, that tradition continues in a clear line from our founders. It is in our “DNA,” so to speak, the desire to engage the culture and change the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Located in a quiet north Queen Anne residential neighborhood, Seattle Pacific University’s 40-acre campus borders the Lake Washington Ship Canal and boasts majestic trees, open lawns, beautiful gardens, and views of the Cascade mountains.