Pomona College

Not to be confused with California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Pomona College
Pomona College logo
TypePrivate liberal arts college
EstablishedOctober 14, 1887 (1887-10-14)
Academic affiliation
Claremont Colleges
Endowment$2.8 billion (2023)
Budget$259 million (2023)
PresidentG. Gabrielle Starr
Academic staff
278
Total staff
880
Undergraduates1,732
Location
Claremont
,
California
,
United States

34°05′53″N 117°42′50″W / 34.09806°N 117.71389°W / 34.09806; -117.71389
CampusSuburban, 140 acres (57 ha)
ColorsBlue and white[1][a]
   
NicknameSagehens
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division III – SCIAC
MascotCecil the Sagehen
Websitewww.pomona.edu
Pomona College wordmark

Pomona College (/pəˈmoʊnə/ ⓘ pə-MOH-nə[4]) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type"[5] in Southern California. In 1925, it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions.

Pomona is a four-year undergraduate institution that enrolls approximately 1,700 students. It offers 48 majors in liberal arts disciplines and roughly 650 courses, as well as access to more than 2,000 additional courses at the other Claremont Colleges. Its 140-acre (57 ha) campus is in a residential community 35 miles (56 km) east of downtown Los Angeles, near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U.S. liberal arts college as of 2021 and is considered the most prestigious liberal arts college in the American West and one of the most prestigious in the country.[6] It has a $2.8 billion endowment as of June 2023, making it one of the 10 wealthiest schools in the U.S. on a per student basis. Nearly all students live on campus, and the student body is noted for its racial,[7][8][9] geographic,[10] and socioeconomic[8][11][9] diversity. The college's athletics teams, the Sagehens, compete jointly with Pitzer College in the SCIAC, a Division III conference.

Prominent alumni of Pomona include Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony award winners; U.S. Senators, ambassadors, and other federal officials; Pulitzer Prize recipients; billionaire executives; a Nobel Prize laureate; National Academies members; and Olympic athletes.[12] The college is a top producer of Fulbright scholars[13] and recipients of other fellowships.

  1. ^ Lyon 1977, p. 42.
  2. ^ "Graphic Standards Manual" (PDF). Pomona College. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
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  4. ^ "Pomona". Collins English Dictionary. Archived from the original on April 7, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
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  8. ^ a b Greene & Greene 2016, p. 550.
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  10. ^ Fiske 2021, pp. 154–155.
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  12. ^ Please refer to the list of Pomona College people article for prominent alumni references.
  13. ^ Hermes, J.J. (October 26, 2007). "In California, 2 Small Colleges Abound in Fulbright Scholars". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Archived from the original on May 14, 2021. Retrieved May 14, 2021.


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