Education Alternatives in Stockton, CA

Stockton is home to several institutions of higher education. The largest is the University of the Pacific (UOP). The UOP campus has been used in the filming of several Hollywood films (see below), partly due to its aesthetic likeness to East Coast Ivy League universities. UOP's most notable appearance was in Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark.Also located in Stockton are San Joaquin Delta College, Humphreys College and School of Law, Heald College, MTI Business College, National University, Weber Institute of Science and Technology, and University of Phoenix.

Stockton used to be the site of a California State Hospital, the oldest in the state system, founded only a few years after statehood. Stockton State Hospital was closed in 1996 and has since been converted into the Stockton branch campus of California State University, Stanislaus.