Soka University of America

Soka University of America is a private, non-profit, four-year liberal arts university located in Aliso Viejo, California. Soka University of America has an emphasis on principles of pacifism,human rights, and the creative coexistence of nature and humanity. It has a graduate and an undergraduate program. SUA encompasses both a four-year liberal arts college and a graduate school offering a Master's program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change. SUA hosts the Pacific Basin Research Center and the academic journal Annals of Scholarship. The school is noted for being in the top three in terms of first-year student happiness in the United States as measured by retention rates.