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Pomona
College Ranked #4 in U.S. News & World Report
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 Pomona College has been ranked fourth among all liberal arts
colleges in America by U.S. News & World Report in the
magazine's 2004 guide to “America's Best Colleges.” The
ranking is Pomona's highest since the annual survey began in
the 1980s. In the previous 10 years, the college had
finished fifth in the U.S. News survey eight times, along
with one seventh-place and one eighth-place ranking.
In this year’s results, released on August 22, Pomona tied
for the fourth spot with Carleton College and Wellesley
College. Williams was ranked first, followed by Amherst
College at second and Swarthmore College at third.
In the most recent survey, Pomona College also ranked second
in selectivity, ninth in graduation rate and 16th in
diversity of its student body among the nation’s 217 liberal
arts colleges.
College administrators were pleased to be again named among
the nation’s leading small liberal arts colleges. “I am
delighted that the excellence of Pomona College has once
again been recognized by U.S. News and World Report in their
annual survey," said David Oxtoby, Pomona's president.
"Qualities such as our academic excellence, the small size
of our classes, the strength of our student body, and the
support of our alumni are all important aspects of the
College that contribute to its high ranking. At the same
time, it is important to emphasize that other distinctive
features of liberal arts colleges are not revealed in such a
study. I hope that this survey will encourage prospective
students to find out about what makes Pomona College unique
in the ranks of higher education.”
One of those qualities, said Ann Quinley, vice president and
dean of students, is the quality of Pomona's community. "The
student community is bound together by an interest in
learning and by an ambition to do well in academic pursuits,
[yet] students are collaborative rather than competitive—an
attitude that is encouraged by faculty." Quinley also noted
that "The many opportunities to do research with faculty
build experience that is valuable for graduate and medical
school and cements life-long friendships between students
and their professors."
Pomona College is the founding member of The Claremont
Colleges, a consortium of five independent undergraduate and
two graduate institutions, that did particularly well in the
U.S. News rankings. Among the other members of the
consortium to be named, Claremont McKenna College ranked
12th; Harvey Mudd College tied for 17th; and Scripps College
tied for 34th.
Pomona College also made news recently as a result of a
national college student poll conducted by Princeton Review.
According to the 2004 edition of their book The Best 351
Colleges, Pomona students as a group are the second happiest
to be found at any of America's top colleges and
universities. The top spot in the survey went to DePaul
University in Chicago. Pomona's second-place ranking in the
category of "Happiest Students" was based on a survey of
more than 100,000 students who rated their own schools and
college experiences in a variety of categories ranging from
academics to campus life. Pomona was also ranked second in
the category “schools that run like butter” and 14th for
“dorms like palaces.”
According to Bruce Poch, vice president for admissions at
Pomona, "When you consider the combined message of the two
guides, it's especially noteworthy to see this blend of
'happiest' students with such a high level of academic
quality and selectivity. It says what we have always known:
our students are extremely capable, extremely well supported
and extremely happy to be here.”
U.S. News & World Report “America's Best Colleges" rankings
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