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Pepperdine University - Facilities - Facilities - College ProwlerCollege Prowler3.85

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Quick Stats

Service & Maintenance Staff 109
Campus Size 830 acres
Student Centers
  • The Howard A. White Center, or the HAWC
  • The Sandbar Student Lounge
Campus Library? Yes
Main Libraries Payson Library
Popular Places to Chill
  • Alumni Park
  • The HAWK
  • The Sandbar
Bar on Campus None
Bowling on Campus None
Coffeehouse on Campus
  • Café Fresca
  • The Coffee House
Movie Theater on Campus None, although SGA provides a weekly free movie night in the Smothers Theatre.

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Pepperdine’s beautiful campus is maintained in such a way that everything is white, immaculate, and uniform at all times—no dingy bricks or dirty ivory in sight! And what the architecture lacks in diversity and history, it makes up for with singleness of purpose and a calming, sterilized
unity. Students seem enthralled with the dorms, the computer labs, and most of the other facilities—although there is some disagreement regarding the quality of the workout amenities.

One area in which Pepperdine could still improve itself is its single undergraduate library. Technologically and ergonomically, it is an impressive little building. Why, to the naked eye, Payson Library houses as many computers as it does books! Therein lies the problem, however. Most of the relatively few books and journals Pepperdine does keep on hand are woefully outdated; the shelves seem filled with fragile, dusty tomes donated to the University 40 years ago by its more fragile and dusty alumni. Thus, students needing research materials are bound to find themselves commuting to UCLA’s libraries, or else restricting their research to Pepperdine’s online databases.

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Facilities at Pepperdine University

lontzk

Communications '13

4.6
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You Go to a Private School

Expect to get what you pay for. As with all places it could use improvement, but honestly the places it needs improvement in are really nit-picky things, anyone who doesn't go here would be impressed by our facilities. And the people up there are really receptive and working to make improvements whenever you ask for them.

Apr 09, 2012

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Evankaye

Political Science and Government '14

5.0
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The School!

Pepperdine has one of the most beautiful and well kept college campuses that i have ever seen. With an annual budget in the hundreds of millions, and only 3000 undergraduates, Pepperdine has the resources to ensure that each and every student has access to an amazing athletics center, beautiful cafeteria, and dorms with comfortable living areas and large plasma screen TV's in all of the common rooms. The campus classrooms are always immaculate, and i see campus maintenance workers planting flowers, gardening, or just cleaning up around campus on a DAILY basis. Pepperdine invests a lot in its image and the quality of its facilities, it really shows!

Jan 11, 2012

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jbmcollege

English '15

5.0
A+

Study Spots!

there is always somewhere quiet, noisy, or something in between for everyone. like the outdoors to study math? go to the sandbar or i personally recommend alumni park with the beautiful ocean view and full cityscape of Los Angeles. There's also the Hawc, the museum, and the library as well as many empty classrooms if you need it dead silent

Dec 28, 2011

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Cliffs and the Pepperdine Tower The campus is built into the cliffs of Malibu, so expect a lot of hills and stairs. Your legs are always in great shape, though!
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Athletic Facilities Pepperdine's tennis courts, plus a glimpse of Firestone Fieldhouse and Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool. All these athletic facilities, along with the track, are open for student use. The (heated) pool is open year round!
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For diversions between classes, Pepperdine's campus offers people-watching and coffee-drinking opportunities, and for the more athletically motivated, it has a pool, tennis courts, a gym, and a newly-improved weight room. Or, students can head to the HAWC student center for a game of pool or ping pong.

Men's basketball games are somewhat popular, and student plays and musicals are usually a big hit, too (probably because, at such a small school, everyone on campus knows at least one of the starring thespians). For the most part, though, students are looking to get away from campus in the evenings, if they possibly can.

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