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When the founders of Pomona created "a college of the
New England type" in California in 1887, they not
only emulated the eastern institutions they had
attended, but they also built a college that would
itself become a model for higher education. Ever
since, Pomona has balanced the liberal arts and
sciences tradition that inspired it with insight and
innovation.
Like its eastern predecessors, Pomona has always been
a residential college, but unlike those
institutions, it was coeducational from the start.
Pomona has remained faithful to its beginnings and
is still small--only 1,500 men and women.
Pomona also is the founding member of
The
Claremont Colleges, an incomparable consortium of five undergraduate
colleges and a graduate school that exists as a major academic community
of 5,000 students. This arrangement offers undergraduates the best
of both worlds: the opportunity to use university-scaled facilities
without sacrificing the personal focus and dedication to undergraduate
education of a small college.
Today, Pomona is recognized as one of the nation's
preeminent comprehensive colleges of the liberal arts
and sciences. It has consistently been ranked among
the best of the best in the
U.S. News & World Report
survey of national liberal arts colleges, which based
its evaluation upon criteria including quality of the
student body and faculty, academic reputation,
financial resources, and ability to retain and
graduate students. A recent Fiske Guide to Colleges
(New York Times Books) states unequivocally that
Pomona is "the finest liberal arts college in the
West."
National academic awards are consistently bestowed
upon Pomona students including Rhodes, Fulbright,
Marshall, Truman, and Watson scholarships. Our
faculty boasts some of the most accomplished women
and men in their respective fields, all of whom
consider teaching their first priority. The
combination of bright, energetic, and imaginative
students and distinguished, dedicated, and
top-ranked professors ensures a dynamic academic
environment where students and faculty continually
challenge one another.
To find out what life is like at Pomona, explore Pomona College
Magazine's Day in the Life
issue featuring several different views on a "typical" day on the Pomona
College campus and among Pomona students studying abroad.
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