Pomona College
Pomona College (/pəˈmoʊnə/ pə-MOH-nə[9]) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists[10] who wanted to make a "college of the New England type" in Southern California, and in the 1920s, it founded the Claremont Colleges group.
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Type | Private liberal arts college |
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Established | October 14, 1887 |
Endowment | $2.765 billion (2022)[1] |
Budget | $256 million (2022)[2] |
President | G. Gabrielle Starr[3] |
Academic staff | 271[4] |
Administrative staff | 271[5] |
Undergraduates | 1,695[6] |
Location | , , United States |
Campus | Suburban, 140 acres[7] |
Colors | Blue and gold[8] |
Nickname | Sagehens |
Sporting affiliations | NCAA Division III – SCIAC |
Mascot | Cecil the Sagehen |
Website | www |
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Pomona is a four-year college for undergraduates. About 1,700 students from all 50 U.S. states and 63 countries go there as of January 2023.[11] The college offers 48 majors and 600 courses, but students can take about 2700 courses total when the courses at the other Claremont Colleges are counted.[12] The college's 140-acre main campus is in a residential area near the base of the San Gabriel Mountains.[7]
Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U.S. liberal arts college[13][14] (7.02% for the class of 2026[2]), and is ranked among the top five liberal arts colleges in the country by Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, and The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education.[15][16][17] It has an endowment of $2.76 billion as of 2022,[1] giving it the eighth-highest endowment per student of any college or university in the U.S.[18][19] In 2020, Niche ranked Pomona as the most diverse college or university in the country;[20] 74% of students are from outside of California, 56% receive need-based financial aid, and 61% are a person of color or an international student.[21][22][23][24]
Pomona has about 25,000 living alumni.[25] The college's alumni have won Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony awards. They have also become U.S. Senators, ambassadors, and other federal officials. Others have won Pulitzer Prizes, become billionaires, won a Nobel Prize, joined the National Academies, and competed in the Olympics.[26] The college is a top contributor to the Fulbright Program and other fellowships.[27][28][29][30]
References
- "Pomona College Financial Statements - 2022" (PDF). Pomona College. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- "Institutional Research Fast Facts". Pomona College. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- "Pomona's 10th President - G. Gabrielle Starr". Pomona College. Archived from the original on 29 December 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- "Institutional Research Fast Facts". Pomona College. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- John Evan Seery. "Somewhere Between a Jeremiad and a Eulogy". Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- "Student Body". Pomona College. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- "Life at Pomona". Pomona College. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
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- "1885 | Pomona College Timeline". Pomona College. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
- "Admissions and Aid". Pomona College. February 3, 2015. Archived from the original on August 31, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
- "Fast Facts". Pomona College. May 21, 2015. Archived from the original on February 28, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- "Top 100 - Lowest Acceptance Rates". U.S. News. Archived from the original on February 23, 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- "CDS 2018-2019". Pomona College.
- "National Liberal Arts Colleges Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
- "America's Top Colleges List". Forbes. Archived from the original on August 10, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
- "Explore the Full WSJ/THE College Rankings". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- "Introducing the Pomona College Class of 2022". Pomona College. March 15, 2018. Archived from the original on March 17, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
- "Endowment per Student". College Raptor. Archived from the original on July 4, 2019. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
- "2020 Most Diverse Colleges in America". Niche. Archived from the original on May 27, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
- "Pomona College Profile 2016–2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 3, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- "Common Data Set 2016–2017" (PDF). Pomona College. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
- "Pomona College Enrollment Statistics – Fall 2017" (PDF). Pomona College. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 16, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- "Student Body- Fall 2018". Pomona College. April 7, 2015. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
- "Fact Sheet". Pomona College. May 21, 2015. Archived from the original on February 28, 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
- Please refer to the List of Pomona College people article for prominent alumni references.
- "Home | The Rhodes Scholarships". The Rhodes Trust. Archived from the original on May 23, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
- "Marshall Scholarships Statistics". Marshall Scholarships. Archived from the original on January 26, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- "Meet the Fellows". Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Archived from the original on October 2, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
- "Top Producers of Fulbright U.S. Scholars and Students, 2018-19". The Chronicle of Higher Education. February 10, 2019. Archived from the original on April 14, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2019.