Alliant International University

Alliant International University

Type	Private benefit corporation
Established	California School of Professional Psychology 1969 United States International University 1952 Join date 2001
Parent institution	Bertelsmann Education Group
President	Andy Vaughn
Provost	Tracy Heller
Students	3,871
Undergraduates	421
Postgraduates	3,450
Campuses in	Fresno, CA, U.S. Irvine, CA, U.S. Los Angeles, CA, U.S. Mexico City, Mexico Sacramento, CA, U.S. San Diego, CA, U.S. San Francisco: Beach St., CA U.S. San Francisco: Haight St.,CA, U.S. Tokyo, Japan
Website	www.alliant.edu

Alliant International University is a private, benefit corporation higher education institution based in San Diego, California. The university is also known as Alliant. It offers programs in six California campuses — in San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Irvine, Sacramento, and Fresno — and three international campuses — in Mexico City, Mexico; Tokyo, Japan; and Hong Kong. Its enrollment is approximately 4,000 students, of whom 95% are post-graduate. There was another campus in Europe, but it was sold. This campus was used as a site for many films, including Harry Potter.

Alliant was formed in 2001 by the combination of two older institutions: the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) and United States International University (USIU). Like the institutions that it descended from, Alliant has its home campus in San Diego, California.

USIU is the descendant of the original Balboa School of Law founded by Leland Ghent Stanford as a private graduate institution, in 1924. The name was changed to Balboa University, and then to California Western University in 1952. Once again, in 1968, the school's name was changed to United States International University. The law school, however, retained the name of California Western School of Law.

In the early 1980s, USIU held a broadcast license to operate KUSI, a startup UHF television station television in San Diego. However, for unknown reasons, USIU decided not to launch the channel. The license was transferred to Texas businessman Mike McKinnon and it began as a commercial station in 1982. KUSI still exists as an independent station. USIU developed a network of campuses throughout the world at locations such as Guam, England, Nairobi, Kenya, and Mexico City. The Mexico City campus remains part of the Alliant International University system; however, shortly after the merger with CSPP, the Kenya campus became its own independent entity known as United States International University Africa.