• About
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    In 2009, Zaytuna College was founded in Berkeley, California, with a mission that called for grounding students in the Islamic scholarly tradition as well as in the cultural currents and critical ideas shaping modern society.

  • Academics
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    As a Muslim liberal arts college in the West, Zaytuna offers a curriculum that provides its students with a foundation in the intellectual heritage of two major world civilizations: the Islamic and the Western.

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  • Admissions & Aid
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    Our mission is to educate students to become morally, intellectually, and spiritually accomplished individuals ready to contribute to our contemporary world in ways that are proportionate to their gifts and to the needs of human society.

     

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  • Campus Life
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    Zaytuna’s campus is on Holy Hill and students enter the College as part of a cohort, a community of learners that travel together through the curriculum.

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Summer Calligraphy Workshops

Thuluth: Letter by Letter

Join Ustadha Elinor Aishah Holland for a one-day calligraphy workshop on either July 12 or July 19.

Watch the 2025 Commencement

Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Programs

Zaytuna College offers a BA in Liberal and Islamic Studies with a minor in Arabic, as well as an MA in Islamic Texts with three concentration options. 

BA in Liberal and Islamic Studies

Zaytuna’s Bachelor of Arts in Liberal and Islamic Studies and minor in Arabic is founded on an integral liberal arts curriculum, consisting of courses from both the Islamic and Euro-American traditions of higher learning.

LEARN ABOUT THE BA PROGRAM

MA in Islamic Texts

Zaytuna’s Master of Arts in Islamic Texts is intended to provide students with higher-level access to the Islamic tradition through a guided course of study in Islam’s primary sources.

LEARN ABOUT THE MA PROGRAM

Alumni Pathways

After graduating from Zaytuna College, alumni pursue careers in law, education, medicine, research, and community service. 
BA Class of 2023

Fatima Alemam

  • Beginning medical school in Fall 2025 
  • Inspired by Imam Al-Ghazali to pursue a medical career 
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BA Class of 2018, MA Class of 2020

Scott Doolin

  • Pursuing a PhD in Islamic Studies at The University of Chicago 
  • Writing dissertation on conceptions of free will across religious traditions and how these shape contemporary American debates
LEARN ABOUT THE MA PROGRAM
BA Class of 2019

Hanna Kim

  • Third-year law student at UC College of Law San Francisco 
  • Intends to specialize in Islamic Estate Planning 
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The Heart of Our Campus

In this video, join Ustadh Feraidoon Mojadedi to visit Zaytuna College's musalla. This new project is a central place for students, faculty, and staff to come together and pray the daily prayers in jama’ah, as the Holy Prophet ﷺ urged us to. This blessed place is a sanctuary from the world, from which the call to prayer crosses the campus. We’re delighted to share this milestone with you and need your support to finish this project.

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Make a Gift

As inheritors of a great tradition, we’re committed to educating tomorrow’s leaders and contributing to the commonweal today, through public scholarship and education. Your gift of knowledge helps our students—unburdened by debt and empowered by the study of the Islamic and the Euro-American intellectual traditions—begin to transform the world, God-willing.