Woodbury University

Woodbury University began in 1884, when the educator and entrepreneur F.C. Woodbury established a college in Los Angeles in response to the needs of the city’s growing business community.

Woodbury College, as it was first known, admitted a first class made up almost equally of men and women, an unusual commitment to gender equity at the time. It became a college of business administration and design, took the name Woodbury University under president Dora Kirby, and in 1987 moved to a 22-acre campus in northern Los Angeles on the boundary with Burbank, the former site of the Villa Cabrini Academy.

Programmes are grouped in the School of Architecture, the School of Design and Media Arts, the Woodbury Business Institute and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Architecture runs from the BArch and the BFA in Interior Design to the MArch and the Master of Interior Design; the design and media arts school teaches Graphic and Experience Design, Animation and VFX, Game Art and Design, Fashion Design and Filmmaking.

Accreditation comes from the National Architectural Accrediting Board and the Council for Interior Design Accreditation, and the university belongs to the Cumulus association. It now operates as University of Redlands, Los Angeles, after its integration into the University of Redlands, and describes itself as a small, creative institution in the heart of the city.