Pacific School of Religion

About

Type: Private nonprofit, 4-year
Location: Berkeley, California
Website: www.psr.edu

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Setting: Midsize city
Nearest major city: San Francisco, about 45 mi
Nearest international airport: Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (OAK), about 10 mi

Berkeley, California

Academic calendar: Semester
Religious affiliation: Multiple Protestant Denomination
President: David Vásquez-Levy (President)
Phone: 5108498200
City: Berkeley, California
Address: 1798 Scenic Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709

Degrees & Majors

Graduates in 2025 (first major)

Master's60 international (0.0%)

Doctoral90 international (0.0%)

Popular graduate programs

Theology/Theological Studies · Master's5 (0% international)
Divinity/Ministry · Master's1 (0% international)

All majors, graduates and earnings IPEDS · College Scorecard

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Theology has 15 graduates in 2025
Major	Graduate Salary	Master	Doctor
Theology/Theological Studies.	$43,287
Divinity/Ministry.	$43,287

Students

124 students in 2025

Graduate students 124

International Students

International share over the last 10 years · gray line: median of all 235 private faith-related institutions in the U.S.

Graduate students3.2%

4 in 2025 · 6.3% in 2016

2016Peer median 3.2%2025

Cost

Finances · fiscal year 2024

Revenue$8.4M

Gifts and private grants

$2.7M31.6%

Investment return

$2.3M26.8%

Auxiliary enterprises

$1.1M13.5%

Tuition and fees

$928K11.0%

Government grants and contracts

$8K0.1%

Other

$1.4M17.0%

Expenses$8.3M

Institutional support

$3.1M37.4%

Instruction

$2.5M30.5%

Academic support

$1.2M14.0%

Student services

$992K12.0%

Auxiliary enterprises

$511K6.2%

Average faculty salary · 2025 (9-month equivalent)

Dark gray ticks: median pay for the same rank at all 235 private faith-related institutions in the U.S.

All faculty

$75,111peers $51,151

Professor

$93,715peers $65,885

Associate professor

$52,500peers $62,250

Assistant professor

$72,192peers $57,312

Campus Life

Athletics and varsity athletes NCAA · EADA

No athlete data available for 2025.

No athlete data available for 2024.

No athlete data available for 2023.

Nearby & Safety

Ranked colleges nearby

Campus safety · incidents per 1,000 students

18.9 2016

23.1 2017

45.5 2018

21.1 2019

0.0 2020

20.0 2021

0.0 2022

0.0 2023

23.4 2024

0.0 2025

Peer median 0.0 · all 235 private faith-related institutions in the U.S.

Incidents, 2023–2025

Motor vehicle theft

3

From the Clery Act campus safety reports schools file, covering on-campus, non-campus and public property.

Notable Alumni

Notable alumni of Pacific School of Religion include Rousas John Rushdoony (Calvinist theologian, father of Christian Reconstructionism), Linda Seger (Screenwriting consultant and author) and Clyde Harvey (Catholic bishop emeritus of Saint George's, Grenada).

Rousas John Rushdoony 1916–2001

Calvinist theologian, father of Christian Reconstructionism

Also attended: University of California-Berkeley
Linda Seger 1945–2026

Screenwriting consultant and author
Clyde Harvey 1948–

Catholic bishop emeritus of Saint George's, Grenada
Kittredge Cherry 1957–

Author and Metropolitan Community Church priest

Also attended: University of Iowa
Robert John Russell 1946–

Theologian and founder of Center for Theology and Natural Sciences

Also attended: University of California-Santa Cruz, Graduate Theological Union
Vernard Eller 1927–2007

Church of the Brethren minister and author

Also attended: University of La Verne, Bethany Theological Seminary
Jide Macaulay 1956–

LGBTQ rights activist and Anglican minister
William R. Johnson 1946–

First openly gay pastor ordained in a Protestant denomination

Also attended: Elmhurst University
Harold M. Schulweis 1925–2014

Rabbi, theologian and author

Also attended: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York University

More alumni (7, by field)

Politics and law

Victoria Kolakowski 1961–

California judge, first openly transgender U.S. trial judge

Also attended: Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, University of New Orleans, Tulane University of Louisiana
Diana Becton 1951–

First woman district attorney of Contra Costa County

Also attended: Golden Gate University, San Francisco State University

Science and academia

David Batstone 1958–

Ethics professor and founder of anti-trafficking group Not For Sale

Master of Divinity

Also attended: Graduate Theological Union, Westmont College
Georgia Harkness 1891–1974

Methodist theologian and philosopher

Also attended: Boston University, Cornell University

Arts and media

Pat Schneider 1934–2020

Writer, poet and writing teacher

Also attended: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Central Methodist University-College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Gilles Poitras

Author of books on anime and manga

Also attended: University of California-Berkeley

Other fields

James Ishmael Ford 1948–

Zen Buddhist priest and retired Unitarian Universalist minister

From Wikidata “educated at” records (including people who attended without graduating), ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions. Degrees and years follow Wikidata and are left out where it has none.

References and Data Sources

Data from IPEDS (U.S. Department of Education), U.S. News, THE, QS, ARWU and Clery Act campus safety reports. Data insights are written by the Forward Pathway data team from public data.