Chapman University

 Chapman University Chapman University is a private research university in Orange, California. It encompasses eleven schools and colleges, including Argyros School of Business & Economics, Attallah College of Educational Studies, College of Performing Arts, Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Fowler School of Engineering, Fowler School of Law, Schmid College of Science & Technology, School of Communication, School of Pharmacy, and Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences. It is nationally ranked by US News & World Report and is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". History Founded in Woodland, California, as Hesperian College, the school began classes on March 4, 1861. Its opening was timed to coincide with the hour of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration. Hesperian admitted students regardless of sex or race. During its first decades of existence, the schoo...