Palo Alto University

Palo Alto University is a private university in Palo Alto, California, founded in 1975 as the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology and renamed in 2009. It offers undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs in behavioral health fields including counseling, psychology, and social work, using a practitioner-scientist model that combines clinical practice with scientific training. The university has an interconnected relationship with Stanford University and the Stanford University School of Medicine, including collaboration around its doctoral program and research laboratories.