Facts About Pomona

The College
Pomona College, founded in 1887, is a coeducational liberal arts college located in Claremont, California, 35 miles east of Los Angeles. As the founding member of The Claremont Colleges, Pomona College is part of an incomparable arrangement in American higher education - five autonomous undergraduate colleges and two graduate institutions on adjacent campuses, affiliated to broaden the intellectual, social, and cultural resources available to their students.

Through the consortium, Pomona College contributes to and benefits from a distinguished intellectual community, and students can supplement Pomona's comprehensive curriculum by taking classes at any of The Claremont Colleges--including some at the graduate level--selecting from 2,200 different courses. Pomona students may choose from over 230 English language and literature courses, 140 mathematics courses, or courses in any of 12 foreign languages. The consortium also provides libraries and facilities superior to those typically found at small colleges. Yet, Pomona students never lose the benefits of small classes, manageable dorm size, or faculty access.

 Pomona College is currently ranked #7 among the top liberal arts colleges in the nation by
U.S. News & World Report.

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What the College Guides Say About Us

Read what these highly respected publications say about Pomona College:

• US News and World Report
• The Fiske Guide to Colleges
• The Insider's Guide to the Colleges
  (The Yale Daily Press)
• Barron's Top 50
• The Princeton Review
   

Pomona students are intelligent and diverse. The entering class has median SAT scores of 730 in critical reading, 730 in math and 730 in writing.  Eighty-seven percent of the first-year students ranked in the top 10% of their high school graduating classes.  Full-time residential enrollment exceeds 1,500, divided equally between men and women. Students hail from 46 states, the District of Columbia, and 26 foreign countries. Over fifty percent of the students spend at least a semester abroad in one of 40 programs in 25 countries, and most of those students speak a second language.

We are very proud of our students and their accomplishments. We invite you to consider how their strong talents can complement your organization.

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Majors at Pomona College

Pomona offers instruction in all major fields with 43 majors in the natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and fine arts. The most popular majors over the past five years have been Economics, English, Politics, Psychology, Biology, Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Neuroscience, Mathematics, History, International Relations, Media Studies and Chemistry.

More information on Majors at Pomona College . . .

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Who Recruits Pomona Students?
These organizations are among the hundreds who recruit Pomona students:

• ABC / Buena Vista / Disney
• ACLU
• American Red Cross
• Americorps
• Analysis Group
• Bain & Co.
• Cambridge Associates
• Carney Sandoe & Associates (Education)
• City of Hope / Beckman Research Institute
• Freeman & Mills
• Green Corps
• Huntington Library
• ICF Consulting
• Japan America Society
• Kidspace Museum
• Los Angeles Unified School District
• MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund)
• McKinsey & Co.
• Merrill Lynch
• Miller Group, The
• Museum of Tolerance
• Paramount Pictures
• Peace Corps
• Pomona Valley Hospital
• Public Interest Research Groups
• Score! Educational Centers
• Sibson & Co.
• Smith Barney
• Sony Pictures
• Teach for America
• Union Bank of California
• World Savings
• YWCA