About Western University of Health Sciences

Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU) is a private university with its main campus in Pomona, California, and an extra medical hypothetical in Lebanon, Oregon. WesternU offers degrees in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine, optometry, podiatric medicine, nursing, physician assistant studies, physical therapy, pharmacy, biomedical sciences, and veterinary medicine. With an enrollment of 3,833 students (2018–19), WesternU offers 21 academic programs in nine colleges.

Under the banner of WesternU Health, the academe operates a variety of patient care services in California and Oregon. The Pomona and Portland (Oregon) campuses both tote up a medical center, dental center, eye care institute, pharmacy, and travel health center. WesternU-Pomona after that is house to the Pet Health Center, which provides veterinary services. Dental facilities are offered at the Rancho Mirage campus, while a Los Angeles campus provides optometry services.

Several nonprofit organizations are based at the WesternU Pomona campus, including the Harris Family Center for Disability and Health Policy. The Center for Oral Health, moved from the Bay area to the WesternU Pomona campus in 2012. In 2015, the Southern California Medical Museum moved to the Pomona campus.

Founded in 1977, the first program at WesternU was its medical school, the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (COMP). Since that time, the College of Veterinary Medicine opened in 2003, and colleges of dental medicine, optometry, and podiatric medicine opened in 2009. In 2011, the academic world opened an supplementary campus in Lebanon, Oregon, the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific – Northwest (COMP-Northwest). In 2015, the university’s founding president, Dr. Philip Pumerantz, retired.

All of the programs at WesternU have professional accreditation and the academe is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The medical school (COMP) is as well as accredited by the American Osteopathic Association’s Commission upon Osteopathic College Accreditation.