Pomona College

Image: Sdkb, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Pomona College is an elite liberal arts college in southern California. Pomona touts its location and diverse, accomplished, passionate students and faculty.

Affordability: Pomona meets 100% of demonstrated need without student loans. Theoretically, then, Pomona is affordable for any student admitted. However, they do not offer merit aid. Higher income students will pay full price, which is high. According to NCES data, most students do not take out loans (7% of freshman borrowed an average of $12,200 in 2020-21).

Rankings:

#3 liberal arts colleges, U.S. News
#19 colleges and universities, CollegeSimply
#2 best liberal arts colleges, Niche

Popular Majors (NCES):

Econometrics
Computer Science
Math
Political Science

Students, Admissions, enrollment, graduation rates (NCES):

1,764 undergraduate students
7% acceptance rate
58% enrolled
93% graduation rate