The Claremont Colleges

The Claremont Colleges

The Claremont Colleges include five undergraduate and two graduate institutions. Pomona College (established in 1887) was followed by the founding of Claremont Graduate University, known previously as Claremont Graduate School (1925), Scripps College (1926), Claremont McKenna College (1946), Harvey Mudd College (1955), Pitzer College (1963), and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (1997).

The Claremont Colleges model, unique in the United States, provides numerous resources for CGU students. The Claremont Colleges enroll more than 6,300 full-time students. The combined faculty consists of nearly 700 professors, with approximately 1,600 staff and support personnel. Presently more than 2,000 courses are offered to students attending the colleges.

The Claremont Colleges library collection ranks third among the private institutions in California, behind only Stanford and USC, and it is clearly larger than any one of the schools could afford to own on its own. Pooling of re-sources and cooperation help to realize President Blaisdell’s dream of creating in Claremont a consortium with the resources of a major university and the intimacy of a small college setting.

The Claremont Colleges has a service arm that is the central coordinating and support organization for the seven institutions. It provides vital services and programs for The Claremont Colleges and operates the programs and central facilities on behalf of the member colleges. That service arm has 300 employees and a well-managed budget of more than $47 million to assist the member colleges and universities. It has become a national model for a framework for delivering academic, student, and institutional support services such as campus safety, interfaith chaplains, bookstores, student centers, minority affairs centers, payroll and accounting, real estate and housing, risk management, and health and wellness.