Our Academic Facilities

Designed with environmental impact in mind, Soka University’s academic facilities encourage the hands-on exploration of topics as diverse as gardening and astronomy to ceramics and language studies.

Academic facilities

Person tending aquarium in bio lab

Scientific research laboratories

Our scientific research laboratories provide a space for research as well as instruction on various research subjects and areas.

Curie Hall

Marie and Pierre Curie Hall

Marie and Pierre Curie Hall is a state-of-the-art 91,370 square foot facility that includes five teaching labs, 14 research labs, a lecture hall, and a mix of office and interaction spaces.

Bookshelves surround a wooden desk with two chairs as well as an assortment of blue and brown sofa chairs inside the library.

Daisaku and Kaneko Ikeda Library

The library actively engages in teaching information literacy skills, facilitates access to information, and provides spaces for scholastic collaboration and intellectual exploration.

Two students with long black hair sit on a couch with their laptops on their laps and share a laugh.

The Writing Center

The Writing Center offers tutoring sessions and hosts various workshops and events throughout the year.

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Soka Instructional Garden

The Soka Instructional Garden supports academic programs through instruction in composting and gardening and serves as a venue to learn and practice these skills in an environmentally friendly, healthy, and safe manner.

A man and a woman stand in the doorway of a greenhouse behind planters sprouting large, leafy green plants.

Soka Instructional Aquaculture Facility

The mission of the Soka Instructional Aquaculture Facility is to support the teaching of sustainable aquaculture, the appreciation of aquatic organisms, and aquatic research at SUA.

Exterior photo of Nieves Observatory on SUA's Campus

Luis and Linda Nieves Observatory

The Nieves Observatory provides a hands-on experience for students to observe the cosmos through Soka’s telescope.

Image of students working with the ceramics instructor.

Creative Arts Studios

The Creative Arts Studios provide spaces for students enrolled in CARTS courses to work on their creative projects throughout the semester. Students using the facilities, which include labs for photography, ceramics, painting, music, and dance, are able to fulfill the learning outcomes of completing creative artwork, developing tools of creativity, and improving general creative processes.

Four students laugh as they work on coursework together.

Global Language and Culture Center

The Global Language and Culture Center (GLCC) is a dynamic cultural hub at SUA, providing comprehensive resources, activities, and tutoring to facilitate transformative encounters with diverse languages and cultures.

Academic facilities

Scientific research laboratories

Our scientific research laboratories provide a space for research as well as instruction on various research subjects and areas.

Marie and Pierre Curie Hall

Marie and Pierre Curie Hall is a state-of-the-art 91,370 square foot facility that includes five teaching labs, 14 research labs, a lecture hall, and a mix of office and interaction spaces.

Daisaku and Kaneko Ikeda Library

The library actively engages in teaching information literacy skills, facilitates access to information, and provides spaces for scholastic collaboration and intellectual exploration.

The Writing Center

The Writing Center offers tutoring sessions and hosts various workshops and events throughout the year.

Soka Instructional Garden

The Soka Instructional Garden supports academic programs through instruction in composting and gardening and serves as a venue to learn and practice these skills in an environmentally friendly, healthy, and safe manner.

Soka Instructional Aquaculture Facility

The mission of the Soka Instructional Aquaculture Facility is to support the teaching of sustainable aquaculture, the appreciation of aquatic organisms, and aquatic research at SUA.

Luis and Linda Nieves Observatory

The Nieves Observatory provides a hands-on experience for students to observe the cosmos through Soka’s telescope.

Creative Arts Studios

The Creative Arts Studios provide spaces for students enrolled in CARTS courses to work on their creative projects throughout the semester. Students using the facilities, which include labs for photography, ceramics, painting, music, and dance, are able to fulfill the learning outcomes of completing creative artwork, developing tools of creativity, and improving general creative processes.

Global Language and Culture Center

The Global Language and Culture Center (GLCC) is a dynamic cultural hub at SUA, providing comprehensive resources, activities, and tutoring to facilitate transformative encounters with diverse languages and cultures.

Explore Soka

Learn about why sustainability is important to Soka, book a tour to visit campus, and discover what topics and hypotheses our faculty are researching and testing.