and concentrations, including 11 graduate programs are offered with an average class size of 16. During the 2023-24 school year, Dominican had 1182 undergraduate students and 844 graduate students. Enrollment by gender is 72% female and 28% male.
The university is a member of NCAA Division II and competes in the Pacific West Conference.
== History ==
In 1850, Joseph Sadoc Alemany was appointed Bishop of Monterey. While in France that year, Alemany sought Dominican sisters to join him in California to establish a convent and school in Monterey. Years later, Mother Mary Goemaere and Mother Louis O'Donnell moved the congregation from Monterey to Benicia, and then to San Rafael in 1889. In 1890, the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael formally registered their school with the State of California. The school became a junior college in 1915. In 1917, it became known as Dominican College.
Dominican College became the first Catholic college in California to grant the bachelor's degree to women. Originally a female-only …
