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The Claremont CollegesThe Claremont Colleges feature a cluster of autonomous colleges, each of which excels in a particular academic niche. This educational consortium includes Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, Scripps College and Claremont Graduate University. Each has its own campus, its own students and faculty and its own distinctive style. Yet, the campuses adjoin, and together they provide students with facilities and services you would expect to find only at a large university. With nearly 6,000 students and about 500 faculty members, the colleges generate an endless variety of intellectual, cultural, and social activities.Claremont McKenna College - Founded in 1946. Enrollment: 550 men, 400 women. Bachelor of Arts degree. Liberal Arts curriculum, with special emphasis in economics, government and international relations. Especially appropriate for students seeking careers in business, finance, government, law, politics, international relations, and management. Special programs: political internships in Washington, D.C., business internships; management-engineering (three-year, two-year with Stanford University or Harvey Mudd College); study abroad; independent study; research opportunities in public affair institutes; student exchanges with Colby and Harvard Colleges. CMC is especially interested in preparing graduates for positions of leaderships in corporate, professional and public affairs areas. Harvey Mudd College - Founded in 1955. Enrollment: 467 men, 156 women. Bachelor of Science degrees in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and physics. Purpose - to produce highly competent engineers, scientists, and mathematicians with the breadth to understand the impact of their work on society. One third of the curriculum is the technical core (science, mathematics, engineering), nearly one-third is humanities and social sciences and the remaining coursework constitutes the major. One-half of the senior class will enter graduate and professional schools immediately, with ninety five percent receiving fellowships. The other half take positions in business and industry. Special programs—B.S./Masters degree in engineering and mathematics, extensive undergraduate research opportunities, industry-sponsored clinic projects in engineering, mathematics, and computer science. Pomona College - Founded in 1887. Enrollment: 1400, approximately 700 men, 700 women. Bachelor of Arts degree. Established as a coeducational college offering a truly comprehensive curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences, Pomona prepares its graduates to lead lives of creative leadership and exemplary service. Students interests are well distributed across concentrations in the humanities, natural and physical sciences, social sciences and arts reflecting a broad range of intellectual and personal interests. The curriculum provides extraordinary breadth and depth in all fields offered. The student body is both national and international in origin reflecting an impressive diversity of socioeconomic, ethnic and geographic backgrounds. Opportunities include 45 study abroad and several domestic exchange options, liberal arts clinics, scientific research, public policy internships and individually designed concentrations. Seventy-five percent go on to graduate or professional schools and graduates have chosen careers in business, medicine, law, education, engineering, the arts government and public services. Scripps College - Founded in 1926. Enrollment: 680 women. Bachelor of Arts degrees in 50 majors. From its founding in 1926 as one of the few institutions in the West dedicated to educating women for professional careers as well as personal intellectual growth. Scripps College has championed the qualities of mind and spirit described by its founder, newspaper entrepreneur, and philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps. While many colleges are now coeducational, Scripps continues as a women’s college because it believes that having women at the core of its concerns provides the very best environment for intellectually ambitious women to learn from a distinguished teaching faculty and from each other. Scripps emphasizes a challenging liberal arts curriculum based on interdisciplinary humanistic studies. Claremont Graduate University - Founded in 1925. Enrollment: approximately 2,000. Master's and doctoral degrees are offered through five academic centers in the humanities, organizational and behavioral sciences, psychology, mathematics, botany, fine arts, education, information science, politics and economics management, and executive management. Many traditional professional and academic programs have an interdisciplinary emphasis. Among the several special institutes conducting research and problem-solving studies are the Institute for Applied Social and Policy Research the Claremont Research Institute, the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, the U.S.-Japan Institute, the Institute for Economic Policy Studies, the Institute for Education in Transformation, and the James A. Blaisdell Programs in World Religions and Cultures. The core graduate faculty of 90 appointees is supplemented by more than 100 faculty from the undergraduate colleges and other institutions.
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