Student-Faculty Ratio
9:1
Full-Time Student Population
1,229
Part-Time Student Population
1
Full-Time Instructional Faculty
152
Part-Time Instructional Faculty
22
Faculty with Terminal Degree
100%
Average Faculty Salary
$107,977
Full-Time Retention Rate
96%
Programs/Majors Offered
48
Academic/Career Counseling?
Yes
Class Sizes
- Fewer than 20 students: 85%
- 20 to 49 students: 14%
- 50 or more students: 1%
Instructional Programs
Occupational:
NoAcademic:
YesContinuing Professional:
NoRecreational/Avocational:
NoAdult Basic Remedial:
NoSecondary (High School):
NoSpecial Credit Opportunities
Advanced Placement (AP) Credits:
YesDual Credit:
NoLife Experience Credits:
NoDegrees Awarded
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
Most Popular Majors
- Economics and Econometrics: 11%
- International Relations and National Security Studies: 4%
- Political Science and Government, General: 6%
- Psychology: 5%
Graduation Requirements
- English (including composition)
- Foreign languages
- History
- Humanities
- Mathematics
- Philosophy
- Sciences (biological or physical)
Special Study Options
Study abroad
Other Academic Offerings
- Cross-registration
- Double major
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Exchange student program (domestic)
- Independent study
- Internships
- Student-designed major
Best Places to Study
- Computer labs
- The library
- Lounges
- Outside in the sunshine
- Reading rooms
Tips to Succeed
- Don't come here if you don't want to be in a tight community of very driven and involved students.
- Get to know your professors-go to office hours, talk to them after class, ask questions.
- Go to the Ath!! You'll hear some amazing speakers-and you can usually network with professors.
- If you don't have any experience drinking alcohol, you may be traumatized when you come here.
- Request any dorm but Phillips.
- Take advantage of Jim Nauls as a resource (he will subsidize ANYTHING that you want to do).
- Take advantage of the classes offered at the other 4Cs.
Did You Know?
- Claremont students can cross-register for any classes across the consortium, often including graduate-level classes, and students can even major through another college while still receiving a Claremont McKenna College degree.
- Claremont McKenna does not offer minors. Instead, students may choose to dual major, which slightly reduces the course load of both majors, making two areas of study more manageable. Best of all, tell someone at home you're a bio-lit dual major, and they'll assume you're actually doing the full double!
- Claremont also offers sequences, which allow students to get credit for other areas of study. Some examples are the Leadership, Gender Studies, Human Rights, Genocide and Holocaust Studies and Financial Economics sequences. Students may only get credit for one sequence.