West Coast University

West Coast University

Type	Private, for-profit
Established	1909 (Original), 1997 (Los Angeles, California)
Chairman	David A. Pyle
Location	Irvine , California , United States
Campus	Los Angeles, California Ontario, California Anaheim, California Richardson, Texas Doral, Florida
Website	westcoastuniversity.edu

West Coast University (WCU) is a private, for-profit university focused on healthcare degrees with campus locations in Los Angeles, Anaheim, and Ontario, California; Richardson, Texas; and Miami, Florida. David Pyle founded American Career College in 1979 under the name of American College of Optics. Originally the school focused only on optical dispensing. In May 1997, Pyle purchased West Coast University, which was chartered by the State of California in 1909, out of bankruptcy, and developed a program for the training of registered nurses.^[1]