[1] APU offers more than 100 associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs on campus, online, and at seven regional locations across Southern California.

He also introduced the university's "Four Cornerstones," Christ, Scholarship, Community, and Service, and oversaw the construction of seven new buildings, a doubling of student enrollment, and a quadrupling of graduate programs.

The report also found approximately 47,500 APU alumni reside within California, increasing the state's productivity and earning power.

[7] A small group of Quakers (also known as Friends) and a Methodist evangelist laid the foundation for the Training School for Christian Workers in 1899.

[4] As faculty members began to embrace Evangelicalism and reject a growing liberal trend in the California Yearly Meeting of Friends, a campus church was established in 1933.

The series of college mergers and campus re-locations which followed helped to solidify the school's identity as an Evangelical institution.

[15] A unified catalog identifies the more than 240,000 books, media items, and 1,900 periodical titles in the libraries' print collections.

[15] In the fall of 2009, Azusa Pacific University acquired a collection of antiquities, including five fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls and five first-edition prints of the King James Bible.

[17][18] Special collections of Azusa Pacific University are housed in the Thomas F. Andrews Room of the Hugh and Hazel Darling Library, located on APU's West Campus.

The special collections consist of over 6,500 holdings ranging from presidential signatures to historical citrus crate labels.

The Honors College describes its purpose as "liberally educat[ing] the next generation of intellectually-gifted Christian leaders.

[29] Azusa Pacific University decided to end its football program in December 2020 due to financial restructuring.

A total of 14 APU athletes have competed in the Olympics, including 2008 decathlon gold medalist Bryan Clay '03, and 50 other alumni have been drafted into other professional sports, including Christian Okoye '87, former Kansas City Chiefs fullback; Stephen Vogt '07, former MLB player and current Cleveland Guardians manager; Kirk Nieuwenhuis '08, Long Island Ducks outfielder; and Terrell Watson '15, San Diego Fleet running back.

[32] Several graduates have gone onto serve as leaders in higher education including J. David Carlson, Jeff Siemers, and Jacob Amundson.

Music groups require an audition, and perform at local churches as well as state and national orchestral and symphonic events.

[36] In addition to these ensembles, the Artist Certificate program offers a conservatory style experience to the School of Music's highest performing musicians.

The SGA's governing structure, listed from highest position to lowest, is composed of a president, five executives, two commissioners, nine senators, and nine representatives.

[45] In 2016, APU was recognized by Diverse Issues in Higher Education as one of the nation's top schools in awarding degrees to minority students.

[51] As of 2022, University policy states that "God-given sexuality" is to take place in the context of a marriage covenant between a man and a woman.

[57] Through APU's Center for Student Action, undergraduates perform more than 165,000 hours of service each year locally and globally.

In addition to these weekly service opportunities, students can spend a semester living and learning in Los Angeles through L.A.

Programs include but are not limited to: educational development, orphan work, conversational English teaching, prayer ministry, mobile medical care clinics, and anti-human and anti-sex trafficking.