Pomona College

Pomona Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1887. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,612, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 140 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Pomona College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 5. Its charge and fees are $45,832 (2014-15).
Pomona Academy is amid in Claremont, Calif., 35 afar east of city-limits Los Angeles abreast the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

 Pomona’s founders envisioned "a academy of the New England type" if they created this academy with baby classes and able student-faculty relationships. Pomona is a affiliate of the NCAA Division III Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. On-campus apartment is affirmed if requested, and added than 97 percent of acceptance reside in the 14 abode halls, two-thirds of which accommodate individual rooms. Pomona offers added than 200 apprentice organizations.

A acclaimed abstruse club alleged "Mulfi" has larboard cryptic addendum with amusing annotation about campus back the 1940s. Acceptance can aswell get complex with the three campus fraternities.

Pomona Academy has about 45 majors and offers a 8:1 student-faculty ratio. Pomona acceptance can aswell yield classes at the added six colleges in the Claremont Colleges consortium: Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Activity Sciences. Added than bisected of Pomona acceptance abstraction away through the about 50 programs Pomona offers in about 30 countries. "Ski-Beach Day" takes advantage of Pomona’s different location: Acceptance ski at a bounded resort in the morning, and absorb the afternoon at a bank in Orange County. Notable alumni cover above New York Times controlling editor Bill Keller and acclaimed choral aqueduct Robert Shaw.

Pomona offers its about 1,600 students-evenly disconnected amid men and women-a absolute chic in the arts, humanities, amusing sciences and accustomed sciences. With a student-faculty arrangement of eight to one, acceptance accept the befalling to plan carefully and collaboratively with advisers who are aswell top advisers in their fields. Acceptance and adroitness claiming anniversary added in laboratories, classrooms, and co-curricular activities, and anybody allowances from the activity generated by such an aggregation of aciculate and acquisitive minds. Friendships artificial a part of Pomona adroitness and acceptance frequently abide far above the four years of college.

Few institutions action Pomona's adeptness to amalgamate affectionate qualities as an boilerplate chic admeasurement of 15 with such all-embracing assets as a two-million-volume library. Fewer accept enrolled as accomplished and top accomplishing a apprentice physique which is as blessed with their ambiance and choice. As the founding affiliate of The Claremont Colleges, a different bunch of seven absolute institutions on abutting campuses, Pomona offers its acceptance the acquaintance of a small, academically superb advanced arts academy and the across of bookish and amusing assets commonly associated with above universities.

Students claiming and apprentice from one addition not alone in the classroom but aswell in circadian life. On-campus apartment is guaranteed, and few acceptance accept to reside anywhere else. The amazing indigenous and amusing assortment of its apprentice physique gives Pomona a broader mix of backgrounds than just about any commensurable educational institution.


Our location-within an hour of the Pacific Ocean, the Mojave Desert, the San Gabriel Mountains and the city-limits of Los Angeles-informs and shapes circadian activity at the College. There aren't abounding places in the apple area you can ski in the morning, play on the bank in the afternoon, and yield in a above alliance baseball bold or an opera at night. Above the recreational and cultural possibilities, our area offers incomparable opportunities for acreage study, association captivation and internships.

Pomona acceptance are so assorted that they abide simple categorization. They embrace new ideas, yield initiative, ask questions and claiming the cachet quo. They are as academically able a accumulation as any academy or university can claim, and they are absorbed in accomplishing something important with their talents.
Our acceptance allotment a spirit of artlessness and collaboration. Our acceptance are aggressive but not bloodthirsty - a actual important distinction. They plan hard, but don't analyze brand point averages to peers. Maybe it's the acclimate or the approach copse but, we tend to anticipate it's something more: a cooperation fostered by adroitness in the lab and classroom. Advisers animate collaboration, and abounding acceptance abide alive calm afterwards class, basic abstraction groups that accommodated in the abode halls, in lounges and computer labs and over laptops and all-overs at the Coop Fountain.

Students arise to Pomona from every accompaniment in the nation and from abounding added countries, from clandestine and accessible schools, from ample cities, suburbs and towns so baby they don't arise on a lot of maps. Added than one-third are acceptance of color, and a abundant allocation are in the aboriginal bearing of their families to appear a four-year academy or university.
To advance the arresting backbone and array of Pomona's apprentice body, the College's banking assets are critical. For U.S. citizens and abiding residents, acceptance decisions are fabricated after application of a student's banking circumstances. Over bisected of Pomona's acceptance accept banking aid from the Academy to abutment their study, and the Academy meets 100 percent of the approved banking charge of every enrolled student. This convenance ensures that the a lot of able acceptance will consistently be able to accept at Pomona behindhand of their banking circumstances.