Pomona College
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| Type | Private liberal arts college |
|---|---|
| Established | October 14, 1887 |
| Endowment | $3.009 billion (2024)[1] |
| Budget | $271 million (2024)[2] |
| President | G. Gabrielle Starr[3] |
Academic staff | 276[4] |
Administrative staff | 271[5] |
| Undergraduates | 1,690[6] |
| Location | , , United States |
| Campus | Suburban, s |
| Colors | Blue and gold[7] |
| Nickname | Sagehens |
Sporting affiliations | NCAA Division III – SCIAC |
| Mascot | Cecil the Sagehen |
| Website | www |
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Pomona College (/pəˈmoʊnə/ pə-MOH-nə[8]) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists[9] who wanted to make a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In the 1920s, it founded the Claremont Colleges group.
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 September 2025.[10] The college offers 48 majors and 600 courses, but students can take about 2,700 courses total when the courses at the other Claremont Colleges are counted.[11] The college's - main campus is in a residential area near the base of the San Gabriel Mountains.
Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U.S. liberal arts college[12][13] (7.09% for the class of 2028[14]) 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 $3.01 billion as of 2024,[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
- 1 2 "Pomona College Financial Statements - 2024" (PDF). Pomona College. 11 December 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2025. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ↑ "Institutional Research Fast Facts". Pomona College. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ↑ "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 6 March 2025.
- ↑ 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 16 September 2025.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Pomona". Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Institutional Research Fast Facts". Pomona College. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ "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.