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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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University of Southern California
USC, founded in 1880, is Los Angeles's oldest private research university, and its location at the center of the entertainment and media industry has made its School of Cinematic Arts one of the most influential film programs in the world, with alumni including George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis among a long list of prominent directors and producers. The university's "Trojan Family" alumni network is frequently cited as one of the most tightly connected and career-active networks in American higher education, a reputation built over decades of graduates actively hiring and mentoring fellow alumni across entertainment, business, and technology. USC's Marshall School of Business and Viterbi School of Engineering have both grown into top-tier programs in their own right, broadening the university's reputation well beyond its historical strength in film and communications, and its research funding and faculty recruiting now compete directly with the University of California's flagship campuses. USC's football program, one of the most storied in college sports with multiple national championships and a long line of Heisman Trophy winners, gives the university a level of mainstream sports visibility that few academically elite private universities share, tying its academic and athletic reputations together in a way that's distinctly Southern Californian.
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