La Sierra University is a Seventh-day Adventist university in Riverside, California.
La Sierra offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level degrees and is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and the Adventist Accrediting Association (AAA).
Founded in 1922 as La Sierra Academy, it later became La Sierra College, a liberal arts college, and then was merged into Loma Linda University in 1967 and named La Sierra College of Arts and Sciences.
In 1990, La Sierra College of Arts and Sciences separated from Loma Linda University to become La Sierra University an independent institution .
Since becoming independent in 1990, La Sierra University has won multiple national and world titles in the Enactus (formerly Students in Free Enterprise) competition.
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, controversy arose involving the teaching of evolution in La Sierra's science curriculum.
La Sierra has also been the subject of controversy due to its students' low CPA exam pass rates and high levels of student debt after graduation
