Meridian University

Meridian University is committed to fostering human development through transformative efforts that positively impact both public and private sectors, focusing on global and local needs. Our graduate programs in Business, Psychology, Education, and Transformative Leadership help students turn their passion into a profession contributing to social, cultural, ecological, and developmental goals.

Each of Meridian’s degrees provides students with an integrated set of skills and capacities grounded in the principles and practices of transformative learning, along with next-practices specific to the degree and concentration chosen by each student. Meridian’s unique learning model allows students to blend onsite transformative learning labs, asynchronous online coursework, and interactive virtual meetings, creating an educational path that aligns with their life and vision through Meridian’s integrated technology platform.

Meridian is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission and approved by the US Department of Education for participation in the Federal Student Aid program. WASC is the Department of Education's recognized regional accreditor for schools such as the University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, and Stanford University. Meridian’s licensable degrees have been recognized by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences and Board of Psychology for over 25 years.

"Meridian University offers programs unique in their ability to bring cognitive and experiential learning together."



— Jean Houston, Chancellor

Vision and Mission: An Education that Transforms

The evolution of human beings expresses the earth’s deepest potentials. The term Meridian evokes and symbolizes the earth as inhabited and imagined by humans. The culture that humans have imagined into being is in urgent need of transformation. The professions of Psychology, Business, and Transformative Leadership can serve to make a critical contribution to contemporary possibilities for the transformation of culture. Meridian University’s curriculum takes an integrative approach to both personal and cultural transformation within organizations, communities, and societies.

Guided by an Integral Vision, Meridian University seeks to educate leaders with the capacities, skills, and knowledge essential for transforming the professions of Psychology, Business, and Transformative Leadership. The leadership capacities of courage, compassion, clarity, conscience, and embodied self-awareness together constitute the wisdom and integrity required for transforming the professions and the wider culture. At Meridian, transformative learning helps develop these abilities, along with creative inquiry skills and professional knowledge, fulfilling our commitment to providing an education that truly transforms.

When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states.



This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come.



That is the country that we are going to be celebrating.



And those are the people that we are one with.

— Joseph Campbell