Touro University Worldwide Overview

Touro University Worldwide is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Los Alamitos, California. Los Alamitos is a good match for students who enjoy the safety and convenience of the suburbs.

What Is Touro University Worldwide Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at TUW since the student to facuty ratio is 10 to 1.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the doctor's degree is the highest award a student can attain at TUW.
• In 2019-2020, 10% of the faculty were full-time.

Touro University Worldwide Rankings

TUW is ranked #23 out of 152 schools in California.

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

TUW has been awarded the following overall awards by our latest rankings.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#44	Best Doctor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#117	Best Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at TUW.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#3	Best Value Health Sciences & Services Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#4	Best Value Psychology Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#4	Best Value Clinical & Counseling Psychology Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#5	Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#20	Best Clinical & Counseling Psychology Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#29	Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#34	Best Psychology Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#36	Best Value Allied Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#55	Best Value Health Professions Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#86	Best General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards TUW has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#13	Best Industrial & Organizational Psychology Schools	College Factual
#18	Best Value Graduate Degree Colleges for Psychology	College Factual
#24	Best Counseling Psychology Graduate Degree Schools	College Factual
#55	Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Schools	College Factual
#63	Best Psychology Master’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#118	Best Schools	Grad Degree

Where Is Touro University Worldwide?

Contact details for TUW are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	10601 Calle Lee #179, Los Alamitos, CA 90720
Phone:	818-575-6800
Website:	www.tuw.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/TouroUW
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/TouroUniversity

How Do I Get Into TUW?

You can apply to TUW online at: https://portal.tuw.edu/public/apply.php

Touro University Worldwide has an open admissions policy. This means that the school accepts all applicants assuming that they meet very basic requirements, such as having a high school diploma or equivalent.

Can I Afford Touro University Worldwide?

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At TUW, approximately 25% of students took out student loans averaging $7,393 a year. That adds up to $29,572 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at TUW is 6.2%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

Touro University Worldwide Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 518 undergraduate students at TUW, with 297 being full-time and 221 being part-time.

There are also 1,613 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 297 full-time undergraduates at TUW, 23% are male and 77% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Touro University Worldwide students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	12
Black or African American	52
Hispanic or Latino	27
White	147
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	59

Geographic Diversity

California students aren't the only ones who study at Touro University Worldwide. At this time, 9 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Online Learning at Touro University Worldwide

In 2019-2020, 2,117 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at TUW has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 15th most popular in California for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of TUW Rankings

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Touro University Worldwide was $14,600 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how TUW is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Dispute Resolution	#1	#1
Health Sciences & Services	#3	#3
Social Work	#4	#4
Mental & Social Health Services	#7	#7
Allied Health Professions	#10	#10
Human Services	#24	#21
Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies	#28	#25
Public Administration & Social Service	#39	#39
Business, Management & Marketing	#43	#40

Online Growth Rankings of TUW

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Touro University Worldwide was 20.7%. This is the #692 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at TUW regardless of major.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of TUW majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	20%
General Psychology	26%
Human Services	80%
Mental & Social Health Services	8%
Psychology	21%
Public Administration & Social Service	5%

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at TUW ranks compared to all other mostly online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at TUW.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Dispute Resolution	#7
Human Services	#33
Social Work	#43
Health Sciences & Services	#46
Allied Health Professions	#57
General Education	#62
Public Administration	#66
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	#81
Mental & Social Health Services	#86
General Psychology	#110
Human Resource Management	#142
Public Administration & Social Service	#147
Psychology	#169
Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies	#177
Accounting	#335
Education	#473

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Touro University Worldwide Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	0	0	216	27	243
Accounting	0	46	107	0	153
Mental & Social Health Services	0	0	132	0	132
General Psychology	0	54	0	0	54
Health Sciences & Services	0	0	52	0	52
Human Resource Management	0	0	20	0	20
Public Administration	0	0	16	0	16
Human Services	0	0	15	0	15
Allied Health Professions	0	13	0	0	13
Social Work	0	12	0	0	12
General Education	11	0	0	0	11
Dispute Resolution	0	0	7	0	7
Religious Studies	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	11	125	565	27	728

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.