Pomona College is the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium, a group of five undergraduate and two graduate institutions sharing a contiguous 700-acre campus in Claremont, California. Founded in 1887, Pomona enrolls approximately 1,700 students and is consistently ranked among the top five liberal arts colleges in the nation. Students at Pomona can cross-register at any of the five Claremont Colleges — Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Scripps, and Pitzer — giving them access to more than 2,000 courses and all campus facilities of the combined consortium. This "small coll…