Claremont Schools

What Claremont Schools does

The Claremont Colleges is a consortium of seven independent private higher education institutions located on contiguous campuses in Claremont, California, approximately 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The consortium comprises five undergraduate liberal arts colleges — Pomona College (founded 1887), Scripps College (1926), Claremont McKenna College (1946), Harvey Mudd College (1955), and Pitzer College (1963) — and two graduate institutions: Claremont Graduate University (1925) and Keck Graduate Institute (1997). Each member institution maintains its own student body, faculty, governance, and mission, while benefiting from shared academic, library, and extracurricular services delivered through The Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS), the central coordinating organization. The consortium serves over 8,000 students and 3,400 faculty and staff across 546 acres.

The consortium's core technological infrastructure is a shared library and digital repository stack: The Claremont Colleges Library provides access to over 1 million physical items and 2.3 million digital items; the Claremont Colleges Digital Library (CCDL) houses distinctive archival collections; and Scholarship@Claremont hosts over 16,000 digital scholarly outputs across all seven institutions. Supporting services include the Office of Consortial Academic Collaboration (OCAC), the Claremont Center for Engagement with Primary Sources (CCEPS), and shared IT systems integrating Workday, Springshare LibApps, EBSCO, ProQuest, Ex Libris, ArchivesSpace, and Everbridge. Underlying technology is administrative and content-management in nature rather than AI-driven.

The consortium's revenue mechanics are distributed across three streams: tuition and fees set independently by each of the seven member institutions (annual billing), federal/state/private research grants distributed across members, and alumni donations and endowments supporting individual institutions. Pricing is not centrally administered. The go-to-market is decentralized admissions — prospective students apply to each institution individually for enrollment while gaining cross-institutional access to shared resources. The consortium marked its centennial in 2025, 100 years after James A. Blaisdell's Group Plan was incorporated on October 14, 1925.

Name

Claremont Schools

Legal name

The Claremont Colleges

Website

https://claremont.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1925

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Claremont Colleges is a consortium of seven private higher education institutions in Claremont, California, serving over 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The consortium provides shared library, digital repository, and cross-institutional collaboration services while member institutions maintain autonomous governance.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Consortium (Private Liberal Arts & Graduate Institutions)

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Residential Liberal Arts Colleges (EDAHACAH)

Keywords

• Private higher education consortium
• Liberal arts colleges
• Graduate institutions
• Shared library services
• Cross-institutional collaboration

Headquarters

HQ city

Claremont, North Carolina

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Tuition and Fees: Each of the seven member institutions charges tuition and fees for undergraduate and graduate programs independently
2. Research Grants and Contracts: Federal, state, and private research funding distributed across member institutions
3. Alumni Donations and Endowments: Philanthropic contributions from alumni and supporters of the consortium institutions

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Claremont Colleges is a consortium of seven independent private higher education institutions — five undergraduate liberal arts colleges (Pomona, Scripps, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer) and two graduate institutions (Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute) — that share academic resources, library services, and facilities across contiguous campuses in Claremont, California. Students enroll at one member institution but gain access to university-scale shared services and cross-institutional programs.

Product overview

The Claremont Colleges operates as a consortium of seven independent private institutions (five undergraduate liberal arts colleges and two graduate institutions) located on contiguous campuses in Claremont, California. The consortium offers shared services including The Claremont Colleges Library (serving all institutions with physical and digital collections), digital repositories (Scholarship@Claremont and CCDL), academic collaboration offices (OCAC), and student programs (LURA, Night Owls, Claremont Discourse). Individual member institutions like Keck Graduate Institute offer specialized graduate education. The consortium marked its 100th anniversary in 2025.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Five colleges ranked among top liberal arts colleges nationally
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• LA County LibraryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLibrary collaboration on 'One Book, One Coast' reading initiative featuring George Takei's 'They Called Us Enemy'

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• Great Lakes Colleges Association: Consortium of 13 liberal arts colleges across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic; adjacent consortium peer sharing off-campus study and faculty exchange programs.
• Council of Independent Colleges: National trade association for independent colleges and universities providing shared services, advocacy, and programmatic support to member institutions including Claremont-style consortia.

Direct peers

• Five College Consortium: Consortium of four liberal arts colleges plus UMass Amherst in western Massachusetts; the closest operational analog to The Claremont Colleges' shared-resources, cross-registration consortium model.
• Atlanta University Center Consortium: Consortium of four HBCU institutions (Morehouse, Spelman, Clark Atlanta, Morehouse School of Medicine) sharing academic and student services; multi-institution consortium model serving similar shared-services function.
• Tri-College Consortium: Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore cross-registration consortium with Quaker heritage; directly comparable small-college consortium model on the East Coast.
• Associated Colleges of the Midwest: Consortium of 13 liberal arts colleges across the Midwest; comparable consortium-style cooperation for shared academic programs, off-campus study, and faculty development.

Broad incumbents

• Amherst College: Top-ranked private liberal arts college and consortium member (Five Colleges); comparable in scale, selectivity, and peer institution profile to Pomona and CMC.
• Harvey Mudd College: STEM-focused liberal arts college within the consortium; comparable to Caltech, MIT, and Rose-Hulman as a niche engineering/science undergraduate institution.
• Pomona College: The founding member and largest undergraduate college in the Claremont consortium; comparable to elite liberal arts colleges like Williams, Amherst, and Bowdoin in scale and selectivity.
• Quaker Consortium: Cross-registration arrangement among Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore, and Penn; historical consortium analog to Claremont's shared-academic-resources approach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xfacebook.com/theclaremontcollegesofficial
• Facebookfacebook.com/theclaremontcollegesofficial
• Instagraminstagram.com/theclaremontcollegesofficial
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/claremont-schools

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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