Pomona College

Pomona College

Pomona College is a private, residential, liberal arts college located in Claremont, California. It has ranked in the top ten of liberal arts colleges nationally according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings since their inception and is currently ranked sixth. In 2009, Kiplinger ranked Pomona first among the liberal arts colleges in America. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California, by a group of Congregationalists, the college moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a donated hotel, retaining its name. The school enrolls 1,548 students.

The founding member of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona is a non-sectarian, coeducational school. Its founders strove to create “a college of the New England type”. In order to reach this goal, the board of trustees included graduates of Williams, Dartmouth, Colby and Yale. Beginning in 1925, the Claremont Colleges, which have grown to include five total undergraduate and two graduate institutions, have provided Pomona’s student body with the resources of a larger university while preserving the closeness of a small college.

Pomona College Rankings

• TOP 100 PRIVATE COLLEGES RANKING
• TOP 100 LIBERAL ART UNIVERSITY / COLLEGE IN 2010

Pomona College Tuition and Fees

Students’ financial accounts are required to be current and up to date at all times. All outstanding past due balances must be paid by the first week of classes each semester. If a student is receiving a Perkins or College loan, all promissory loan notes must be signed by the required date shown on the Academic Calendar each semester.

Charges

The standard comprehensive charge made to each student for tuition, fees and room and board will total $51,330 for 2010-11. Additional fees for special purposes are listed below. A substantial portion of the total educational cost is borne by the College through the use of contributed funds and income from endowment funds.

The College reserves the right to change any of the following fees at any time should conditions make it necessary.

General Fees

Tuition per semester: $19,043.50
Associated Students per semester: $153.50
Fee deposit (includes room deposit;
one time only, at time of admission): $500.00

Residence Fees

Room per semester: $3,791.00
Board per semester:
Sixteen meals/$160: $2,677.00
(16 meals per week/$160 Board Plus per semester)
All new students are placed on the 16/$160 meal plan that can be changed during the first 10 days of the semester.

Departmental Fees

Fees for selected intercollegiate courses: see course descriptions.
Applied music fees: see department chair.
Fees for Summer Reading Courses: $500

Fees for Part-time Students

Special tuition for students carrying fewer than three courses in a semester:

• Per course: $6,348
• Per half-course: $3,174

Auditor’s Fees

For persons, other than those taking courses for credit, per course: $100

Fees for Special Privileges

Payment plan fee, per semester: $50
Late pre-enrollment/enrollment fee: $35
Late payment fee, per month: $25
Returned check fee: $50
Campus fee for automobiles,
per semester: $60
Re-enrollment for senior exams: $50
Diploma replacement fee: $25

The College reserves the right to apply any miscellaneous fees or charges the student may incur to the student account. This includes, but is not limited to, lab fees, library fees, unpaid medical fees and charges due to lost or damaged College property.

Schools of Pomona College

Departments and Programs

• Africana Studies
• American Studies
• Anthropology
• Art & Art History
• Asian American Studies
• Asian Languages & Literatures
• Asian Studies
• Astronomy
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Chicana/o – Latina/o Studies
• Classics
• Computer-Science
• Dance
• Economics
• English
• Environmental Analysis
• Gender and Women’s Studies
• Geology
• German Language, Literature & Culture
• Health Sciences Program
• History
• International Relations
• Latin American Studies
• Linguistics & Cognitive Science
• Mathematics
• Media Studies
• Molecular Biology
• Music
• Neuroscience
• Philosophy
• Philosophy Politics and Economics
• Physical Education
• Physics
• Politics
• Psychology
• Public Policy Analysis
• Religious Studies
• Romance Languages and Literatures
• Russian
• Science Technology Society
• Sociology
• Theatre

Pomona College News

• Pomona College Museum of Art Receives National Award of Excellence - Tue, 15 May 2012
  The Pomona College Museum of Art has received the 2011 “Outstanding Exhibition in a University Museum Award” from the Association of Art Museum Curators, for its year-long three-part exhibition “It Happened at Pomona College: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973.” 

• Pomona College and University of Puget Sound Join Forces for Disaster Recovery - Mon, 14 May 2012
  University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., and Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., have formed a groundbreaking and cost-effective alliance that will protect each college’s critical data in the event of a disaster.

• Watch the Pomona College 2012 Commencement - Mon, 14 May 2012
  Watch video from the 2012 Pomona College Commencement ceremony, which occurred on Sunday, May 12.

• Museum's "It Happened at Pomona" Exhibition Receives Glowing L.A. Times Review; Show Closes Sunday - Fri, 11 May 2012
  The Pomona College Museum of Art show "It Happened at Pomona: Part 3: At Pomona" is featured by the Los Angeles Times on its website today and scheduled for print tomorrow. Art critic Christopher Knight notes that it is "the last of an absorbing trio of small Pacific Standard Time shows…[in which] the paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations often ricochet off one another in form and content, underscoring an era of ferment."

• Professor Jonathan Lethem Interviewed by NPR and Other Media About New "Talking Heads" Book - Thu, 10 May 2012
  Professor Jonathan Lethem has been interviewed by several media outlets about his latest book, Fear of Music, the author and critic takes on the Talking Heads’ seminal 1979 album for the Continuum Books' 33-1/3 series. In his latest interview with NPR, he discusses one particularly memorable song, "Memories Can't Wait," which the article describes as "a dark departure from the Talking Heads' typical sound, musically and lyrically." Other recent interviews include Salon, Wired, the Daily Beast, amd the Los Angeles Review of Books (podcast). The book was reviewed in the larger context of "criticism as memoir" by Slate, as well as by the Los Angeles Review of Books and The Atlantic.

• Jamie Goldberg '11 Receives White House Correspondents' Association Scholarship - Thu, 10 May 2012
  Jamie Goldberg ’11 has been awarded one of only 16 White House Correspondents’ Association Scholarships. She received the award from President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner in April.

• Alumni Weekend 2012 in Photos - Tue, 8 May 2012
  View photos from our 2012 Alumni Weekend, during which more than 1,500 alumni and friends visited campus to reunite and celebrate their time at Pomona College.

• Stephen Pauley '62 Awarded the Trustees' Medal of Merit - Tue, 8 May 2012
  Stephen Pauley ’62, a retired ear, nose and throat physician, has spent decades working on environmental causes, deeply affecting both the environment around him and at Pomona College. For his contributions, he is being presented with Pomona College's Trustee Medal of Merit.

• Nicholas Sundback '14 and Jesse Vincent '14 Awarded Critical Language Scholarships by the U.S. State Department - Tue, 8 May 2012
  Nicholas Sundback ‘14 and Jesse Vincent ‘14 have been selected to receive U.S. Department of State 2012 Critical Language Scholarships from a pool of more than 5,200 applications. 

• Professors Catalin Mitescu and Sheila Pinkel to Retire - Tue, 8 May 2012
  Please join us in saying goodbye to these faculty members as they retire at the end of the 2011-12 academic year.