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Pomona College

Type	Private liberal arts college
Established	October 14, 1887 (1887-10-14)
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Location	Claremont , California , United States
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Colors	Blue and gold
Nickname	Sagehens
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Division III – SCIAC
Mascot	Cecil the Sagehen

Pomona College ( pə-MOH-nə) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to make a "college of the New England type" in Southern California, and in the 1920s, it founded the Claremont Colleges group.

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Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U.S. liberal arts college (0% for the class of Expression error: Unexpected < operator.Lua error in Module:Wd at line 1575: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).), and is ranked among the top five liberal arts colleges in the country by Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, and The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education. It has an endowment of $Expression error: Unexpected < operator. billion as of Error^[update][[Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements from Expression error: Unexpected < operator. ]],Lua error in Module:Wd at line 1575: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). giving it the eighth-highest endowment per student of any college or university in the U.S. In 2020, Niche ranked Pomona as the most diverse college or university in the country; 74% of students are from outside of California, 56% receive need-based financial aid, and 61% are a person of color or an international student.

Pomona has about 25,000 living alumni. The college's alumni have won Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony awards. They have also become U.S. Senators, ambassadors, and other federal officials. Others have won Pulitzer Prizes, become billionaires, won a Nobel Prize, joined the National Academies, and competed in the Olympics. The college is a top contributor to the Fulbright Program and other fellowships.

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An exterior view of the college in 1907, featuring its two earliest buildings: Sumner Hall (right) and Holmes Hall (left)
U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Pomona in 1903
Reserve Officers' Training Corps soldiers at Pomona in 1942
Pomona's Studio Art Hall, completed in 2014, garnered national recognition for its steel-frame design.
Pomona's buildings are connected via a network of visual axes, such as this one on North Campus.
Dialynas and Sontag residence halls, built 2011, are LEED platinum certified. (view as a 360° interactive panorama)
Crookshank Hall in the Stanley Academic Quadrangle
Marston Quadrangle forms the center of Pomona's campus. (view as a 360° interactive panorama)
Honnold Library, a shared Claremont Colleges resource
Pomona's office of financial aid is in Sumner Hall.
Bridges Hall of Music hosts a variety of performances by the college's musical ensembles.
Estella Laboratory, opened in 2015, houses Pomona's physics, astronomy, and math programs.
Pomona's Career Development Office is in Alexander Hall.
The Spirit of Spanish Music, a sculpture by alumnus Burt Johnson in Lebus Courtyard
Common room in a Dialynas Hall suite (view as a 360° interactive panorama)
Frary Dining Hall on North Campus is the largest of Pomona's three dining halls. (view as a 360° interactive panorama)
The Smith Campus Center is a focal point of campus life and houses the offices of the Associated Students of Pomona College. (view as a 360° interactive panorama)
Students on Alternabreak, a week-long community engagement trip held over spring break, care for trees in a Los Angeles park.
Claremont's train station is directly south of campus.
A Pomona-Pitzer football game
The football team in 1911
Harwood Court
The Wash
Bridges Hall of Music
Bridges Auditorium
The Carnegie Building
Mason Hall
Walker Hall
Norton-Clark III courtyard
Dividing the Light skyspace
Prometheus mural
Walker Beach, looking north

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