Living in Southern California

Biola is ideally situated on the border of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, only minutes from beaches, mountains, bike paths, art galleries, and amusement parks. Downtown Los Angeles is a half-hour's drive from the campus. Disneyland is 12 miles southeast and Knott's Berry Farm is only six miles away. Within an hour's drive are such popular beach cities as Long Beach, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach.

In addition to the wealth of cultural, educational, and recreational opportunities, Southern California provides a wide array of ministry opportunities that Biola students pursue.

The Biola Campus

The campus consists of 95 acres with nearly 800,000 square feet of building space in 31 major buildings. Just under half of the space is dedicated to nine student residence halls, housing nearly 1,500 students in a fine variety of living quarters.

These include traditional residence halls, fully independent apartments, and special housing for both married students and graduate students. The rest of the buildings house classrooms, laboratories, auditoriums, offices and students services.

Highlights of the buildings include Soubirou Hall, containing specialized classrooms for nursing instruction; Lansing Auditorium, a 450-seat concert hall with a fine pipe organ and excellent acoustics; the Rose of Sharon Chapel, a small chapel exclusively reserved for silent prayer and meditation; a gymnasium-swimming complex with a short-course Olympic pool; and a new production center for the Radio/TV/Film program.

The most recent addition to the campus is a 98,000 square foot Library Resource Center in the center of campus. The new facility is designed to enhance the technology of a 21st Century library - combining the best of books and computers in a variety of beautiful and functional research spaces.

Other athletic facilities on campus include lighted soccer/track field, lighted tennis courts, softball diamonds, soccer fields, a baseball diamond and lighted outdoor courts for basketball and sand volleyball. In addition to more than 15 acres of recreational facilities on campus, there are off-campus facilities in the 105-acre La Mirada Regional Park, just across La Mirada Boulevard from the Biola campus.