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Pomona College
Pomona College, founded in 1887, is consistently ranked among the very best liberal arts colleges in the country, and its small size — fewer than 1,700 undergraduates — lets it maintain student-faculty ratios and personal-attention teaching that large research universities, however prestigious, generally can't replicate. The college anchors the Claremont Colleges consortium, a group of five undergraduate colleges and two graduate institutions sharing adjacent campuses in Claremont, giving Pomona students access to the course catalog, libraries, and social life of a much larger university while keeping each individual college's enrollment small and tightly knit. Pomona's endowment per student ranks among the highest of any liberal arts college in the country, funding need-blind admission and full-need financial aid policies that let the school recruit talented students regardless of their ability to pay — a commitment relatively few private colleges, liberal arts or otherwise, can financially sustain. The college's combination of extremely low acceptance rates, a small and deeply resourced campus, and access to the broader Claremont Colleges' academic offerings has made it the benchmark against which other elite liberal arts colleges on the West Coast are generally measured.
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California Institute of Technology
Caltech is one of the smallest major research universities in the country, enrolling fewer than 1,000 undergraduates at any given time, yet its faculty and alumni have won more Nobel Prizes per capita than almost any other institution in the world, a concentration of scientific achievement built on an unusually narrow, science-and-engineering-only academic focus. The school manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory under contract, giving Caltech direct institutional ties to the Mars rover missions and numerous other deep-space exploration programs — a relationship that lets Caltech students and faculty work on active spacecraft engineering projects most universities can only study from a distance. Caltech's core curriculum requires all undergraduates, regardless of major, to complete rigorous coursework in physics, mathematics, and chemistry before specializing, a demanding shared foundation that's part of why the school's undergraduate experience is often described as among the most academically intense in the country. Despite its small size, Caltech's research budget and per-student research output rival universities many times its enrollment, and its combination of extreme selectivity, a tiny student body, and direct involvement in NASA's most prominent missions makes it one of the most distinctive institutions in American higher education.
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