West Coast University

West Coast University (WCU) is a private, for-profit university focused on healthcare degrees, campus locations cover Los Angeles, Anaheim and Ontario, California, Dallas, Texas, and Miami, Florida. It is not accompanying to a academy of the aforementioned name operating out of Panama. David Pyle founded American Career College in 1979 beneath the name of American College of Optics. Originally the academy focused alone on optical dispensing. In May 1997, Mr. Pyle purchased West Coast University, which was founded in 1909, out of defalcation and developed a affairs for the training of registered nurses.

History
West Coast University was founded in Los Angeles in 1909 as a baby ophthalmology school. Over the next 50 years, its affairs offerings assorted from aeriform engineering, activated sciences and mathematics to adaptable agent engine repairs. As it developed, West Coast University became one of the antecedents in alms bachelor's amount programs advised to accommodated the needs of alive adults to aid their careers. These programs were offered in non-traditional settings. For example, in 1953, the University began alms evening-only programs based on a agenda of six two-month bookish terms. The success of this access led the University to aggrandize and alter its programs to cover offerings in the areas of business and management, computer science, automated technology, and pre-health science. Associate degrees in Science as able-bodied as master's amount programs were alien in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1981, the University reorganized into three audible colleges: the College of Business and Management, the College of Engineering, and the College of Letters and Sciences. The University was led by the backward Dr. Victor Elconin, whose administration was active in developing the University’s solid acceptability in the business and bookish community.

In May 1997, WCU was reorganized beneath the administration of its accepted Chairman, David Pyle . The new administration aggregation was committed to refocusing the institution’s alms of programs to those that were accomplished in appeal and would be a lot of benign to alive adults. Therefore, educating bloom affliction professionals became the University’s atypical focus in 2004. Just four years later, West Coast University became the aboriginal abreast captivated proprietary university in California accustomed to action a Bachelor of Science amount in Nursing. The afterward year, in 2009, the University accomplished added programmatic accreditation for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing affairs at their California campuses from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Apprenticeship (CCNE). That aforementioned year, WCU was awarded antecedent accreditation by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) to action a Bachelor of Science Amount in Dental Hygiene in Orange County. WCU’s Dental Hygiene affairs is one of alone 4 CODA-accredited bachelor's amount in Dental Hygiene programs offered in California. West Coast University chose Henry Schein to architecture a new dental hygiene teaching ability in its Anaheim, California campus which opened its doors on April 13, 2009.

West Coast University’s Los Angeles campus accustomed approval in 2010 to accolade Master of Science degrees in Nursing and Bloom Affliction Management. That aforementioned year, the avant-garde Simulation Center for Nursing opened at the Orange County campus. The Simulation Center is congenital into the nursing class and appearance high-fidelity mannequins that actor animal responses and accepted bloom affliction technology in astute accommodating affliction settings. A year later, Simulation Centers were opened in the Los Angeles and Ontario campuses.

West Coast University has been a actor in the Yellow Ribbon GI Apprenticeship Enhancement Affairs (Yellow Ribbon Affairs or YRP) back 2010.

In 2011, the University accomplished institutional accreditation through the WASC Senior College and University Commission.

West Coast University opened a campus in Dallas, Texas in 2012. WCU-Dallas is amid in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, appearance a Simulation Center, and is the University’s aboriginal Texas campus. That aforementioned year the Master of Science in Nursing amount accustomed added accreditation by CCNE, Commission on Collegiete Nursing Education.

One notable alum of WCU is Greg Jarvis, one of the astronauts on the Amplitude Shuttle Challenger. He was appointed to accept his diploma, for a administration science degree, on the shuttle, and would accept been the aboriginal being to accept a amount in space. To account his memory, West Coast University posthumously awarded Jarvis with a acclaimed alum accolade on May 15, 2011. The University aswell offers a scholarship in Jarvis’ name.

In 2013, West Coast University launched Global Public Bloom programs. Today acceptance accept catholic to Panama, Costa Rica, Belize, Moldova, and Argentina. West Coast University's Los Angeles campus accustomed approval by WASC for a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy, Doctor of Physical Therapy, and Doctor of Pharmacy programs. In 2014, the MSOT, DPT and PharmD programs were launched.

In 2014, West Coast University opened its newest campus in Miami, Florida. WCU Miami appearance a Simulation Center and is the university's aboriginal Florida campus. The campus offers BSN and LPN to BSN degrees. These programs are accustomed by the Florida Board of Nursing.
WCU's ancestor aggregation purchased Contemporary Forums, a baton in continuing apprenticeship for nurses. West Coast University and American Career College graduates are all acceptable for advancing CE discounts through Contemporary Forums.
In 2015, WCU launched the 100% online, 12-month RN to BSN, 24 ages RN to MSN and 24 ages MSN programs.

Campuses
West Coast University has 5 locations. The Los Angeles campus is amid at 12215 Victory Boulevard, in North Hollywood, California. The Los Angeles Learning Site is amid at 590 North Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, California. The Orange County campus is amid at 1477 South Manchester Avenue in Anaheim, California. The Orange County Learning Site is amid at 2411 West La Palma Avenue in Anaheim, California. The Ontario campus is amid at 2855 E. Guasti Road in Ontario, California. The Dallas campus is amid at 8435 Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, Texas. The Miami campus is amid at 9250 NW 36th Street in Doral, Florida.

Each campus includes classrooms, computer labs, science labs, abilities labs, and avant-garde Simulation Centers. WCU boasts high-tech accessories at its Simulation Centers for Nursing and its chargeless association Dental Hygiene Clinic in Orange County, area acceptance accommodate affliction and convenance their abilities at no amount to absolute patients in underserved populations.