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Pomona College
TypePrivate liberal arts college
EstablishedOctober 14, 1887 (1887-10-14)
Endowment$2.797 billion (2023)[1]
Budget$259 million (2023)[2]
PresidentG. Gabrielle Starr[3]
Academic staff
278[2]
Administrative staff
271[4]
Undergraduates1,732[5]
Location
Claremont
,
California
,
United States
CampusSuburban, s
ColorsBlue and gold[6]
   
NicknameSagehens
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division III – SCIAC
MascotCecil the Sagehen
Websitewww.pomona.edu

Pomona College (/pəˈmoʊnə/ pə-MOH-nə[7]) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists[8] 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 2024.[9] 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.[10] 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[11][12] (6.76% for the class of 2027[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.[13][14][15] It has an endowment of $2.8 billion as of 2023,[1] giving it the eighth-highest endowment per student of any college or university in the U.S.[16][17] In 2020, Niche ranked Pomona as the most diverse college or university in the country;[18] 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.[19][20][21][22]

Pomona has about 25,000 living alumni.[23] 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.[24] The college is a top contributor to the Fulbright Program and other fellowships.[25][26][27][28]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Pomona College Financial Statements - 2023" (PDF). Pomona College. 11 December 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Institutional Research Fast Facts". Pomona College. Retrieved 1 February 2024. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "wikidata-63f76b42775f54878740ac210150c5514cc525f7-v10" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ "Pomona's 10th President - G. Gabrielle Starr". Pomona College. Archived from the original on 29 December 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Student Body". Pomona College. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  6. ↑ "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)
  7. ↑ "Pomona". Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  8. ↑ "1885 | Pomona College Timeline". Pomona College. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Admissions and Aid". Pomona College. February 3, 2015. Archived from the original on August 31, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Fast Facts". Pomona College. May 21, 2015. Archived from the original on February 28, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Top 100 - Lowest Acceptance Rates". U.S. News. Archived from the original on February 23, 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  12. ↑ "CDS 2018-2019". Pomona College.
  13. ↑ "National Liberal Arts Colleges Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  14. ↑ "America's Top Colleges List". Forbes. Archived from the original on August 10, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Explore the Full WSJ/THE College Rankings". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  16. ↑ "Introducing the Pomona College Class of 2022". Pomona College. March 15, 2018. Archived from the original on March 17, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  17. ↑ "Endowment per Student". College Raptor. Archived from the original on July 4, 2019. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  18. ↑ "2020 Most Diverse Colleges in America". Niche. Archived from the original on May 27, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  19. ↑ "Pomona College Profile 2016–2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 3, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  20. ↑ "Common Data Set 2016–2017" (PDF). Pomona College. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  21. ↑ "Pomona College Enrollment Statistics – Fall 2017" (PDF). Pomona College. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 16, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  22. ↑ "Student Body- Fall 2018". Pomona College. April 7, 2015. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  23. ↑ "Fact Sheet". Pomona College. May 21, 2015. Archived from the original on February 28, 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  24. ↑ Please refer to the List of Pomona College people article for prominent alumni references.
  25. ↑ "Home | The Rhodes Scholarships". The Rhodes Trust. Archived from the original on May 23, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
  26. ↑ "Marshall Scholarships Statistics". Marshall Scholarships. Archived from the original on January 26, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  27. ↑ "Meet the Fellows". Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Archived from the original on October 2, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
  28. ↑ "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.


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