Soka University of America (Soka University) is a small, private liberal arts college in the United States, founded in 1987 and located in Orange, S.C. Its student-to-faculty ratio is 1:9. Its student-to-faculty ratio is 1:9, with an average class size of 13 students. The college is ranked 41st in the 2015 list of U.S. liberal arts colleges;