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Stanford University
Stanford University was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife Jane, as a memorial to their son, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at 15 — the founding grant explicitly declared "the children of California" the university's heirs, and undergraduate tuition was free for its first several decades. The university's proximity to Silicon Valley, a region it helped create — Hewlett-Packard was founded by two Stanford graduates in a garage a few blocks from campus in 1939 — has made it the academic center of gravity for the technology industry, with a startup and venture-funding culture woven directly into its computer science and engineering programs. Stanford's 8,180-acre campus is one of the largest in the country by area, and its research output spans nearly every field — the university's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and its medical school's research hospital both rank among the most significant research facilities of their kind in the world. The school's combination of elite academics, entrepreneurial culture, and a top-tier Division I athletics program — Stanford has won more NCAA team championships than any other university — gives it a breadth of institutional strength across research, business, and sports that few universities anywhere can match.
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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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