Mission

When the founders of Pomona created "a college of the New England type" in California in 1887, they not only emulated the eastern institutions they had attended, but they also built a college that would itself become a model for higher education. Ever since, Pomona College has balanced the liberal arts and sciences tradition that inspired it with insight and innovation. Like its eastern predecessors, Pomona has always been a residential college, but unlike those institutions, it was coeducational from the start. Pomona has remained faithful to its beginnings and is still small--only 1,500 men and women. Pomona has consistently been ranked among the best of the best in the U.S. News & World Report survey of national liberal arts colleges.