Sofia is internationally recognized as an academic leader in transformational research and teaching. Sofia cultivates leaders, fosters intellectual growth, provides professional development, and enriches lives.
Sofia University is a passionate, dynamic learning community that fosters multiple ways of knowing. We are dedicated to academic excellence with a shared commitment to authenticity, inclusivity, cultural humility, ecological stewardship, and service to others. Our curricula focus on six areas of inquiry: the intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical, social, and creative aspects of life.
Sofia University offers various innovative graduate degree programs with a choice of delivery modalities for students on-campus and online.
Your entry into a unique educational experience begins here. Our engaging admissions team is here to support you at Sofia University and ensure that your educational journey is as smooth as possible. We offer our dynamic whole-person education in two formats: on-campus and hybrid- online. Our curriculum focuses on the intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical, social, and creative aspects of life. Not only will you receive a substantial educational experience but an extraordinary opportunity to achieve profound personal growth.
Sofia University's financial aid office is here to help you get the financial assistance you need throughout your time here at the university. This may come in the form of scholarships, student loans, or other federal assistance. We strive to make this process as easy as possible for you.
Sofia University, home of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, was founded in 1975 by Dr. Robert Frager in response to the growing need for a shift in higher learning pedagogy. As a graduate from Harvard, Frager had experienced first-hand the conventional approach to the study of psychology and found it to be lacking and often fragmented.
In particular, Dr. Frager's educational ideal hearkened back to the ancient Greek system, which believed that education should take into account all aspects of the human experience. With this idea in mind, he set out to create a school of psychology that would fully prepare psychologists to understand human nature from an approach that transcends the pathological and encompasses the whole human being in the context of culture, physical health, mental health, and spiritual health. Today, Sofia University continues to add new programs to broaden its focus by applying transpersonal values to research, education, technology, and engineering.
Sofia University has built itself on a foundation of transformative, transpersonal education since 1975. Sofia has changed and grown in its own time as a university and encourages its students to do the same. We invite you to take a more in-depth look into our distinguished past to learn more about our first footprints as a school.
Sofia University has long explored the frontiers of psychology and spirituality for the betterment of humanity and the planet's sustainability. In our 40+ years as an institution of higher learning, we have found the transpersonal to be that which transforms lives through the liberation of one's potential as a whole being. This is accomplished by incorporating transpersonal principles and practices that awaken mind, body, and spirit to wholenesses such as mindful meditations, discernment, compassion, recognition of the universality, and the sacred inherent in every living thing, and movement-based mindfulness practices such as Aikido.
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