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Vanguard College is a private, Christian college of aesthetic sciences and expert studies in Costa Plateau, California. The school offers more than 30 college degrees and accentuations in 15 unique divisions. Vanguard College likewise offers grown-up learning programs in its expert studies office and components six graduate degrees. Vanguard College is authorize by the Western Relationship of Schools and Universities (WASC). Positioned one of the top universities in the west by The U.S. News and World Report since 2010, The Princeton Audit likewise named Vanguard College a 2014 "Best in the West" School. Furthermore, Vanguard is named in the 2012-13 Christian Schools of Refinement and made the Forbes rundown of best colleges.

Amid the late spring of 1920, Harold K. Needham, D. W. Kerr, and W. C. Penetrate opened a school to get ready Christian specialists for the different services of the congregation. The new organization, Southern California Book of scriptures School, moved from Los Angeles to Pasadena in 1927. In 1939 it was sanctioned by the Condition of California as a school qualified to give degrees, and it got to be Southern California Book of scriptures School the initial four-year foundation of the Congregations of God. In 1943 the school got acknowledgment by the legislature for the preparation of military clergymen. It moved to the present grounds in 1950. The name was changed to Southern California School nine years after the fact when majors in the human sciences were added to the educational modules.

Provincial accreditation and enrollment in the Western Relationship of Schools and Universities were conceded in 1964. In 1967 the school got acknowledgment and endorsement of its showing qualification program from the California State Leading group of Instruction. In June 1983 the Graduate Studies Program got endorsement from the Western Relationship of Schools and Universities. A Degree Finish Program was begun in 1994 for grown-up learners. On July 1, 1999 college status was accomplished when Southern California School enlisted with the Secretary of State's Office as Vanguard College of Southern California. The College involves the Undergrad School and the School for Graduate and Expert Studies.

Notwithstanding its establishing president, Harold K. Needham, Vanguard College of Southern California has had the capable administration of eight presidents: Daniel W. Kerr, Irvine J. Harrison, John B. Scott, O. Adapt Move, Emil A. Balliet, Wayne E. Kraiss, Murray W. Dempster and Ditty Taylor. Vanguard introduced its tenth president, Dr. Michael J. Beals, on February 7, 2014.