About Scripps College

At a Glance

Top-ranked, private, residential women’s liberal arts college
99.5% of current students live on campus
Founded in 1926 by newspaper publisher and philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps
Scripps is the women’s college of The Claremont Colleges—a consortium comprising Pomona, Scripps, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, and Pitzer Colleges
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, Scripps’ 32-acre campus is widely recognized as one of America’s most beautiful college campuses

10:1 student/faculty ratio
More than 65 majors at Scripps and The Claremont Colleges
28% of Scripps students choose a double or dual major
100% of Scripps students complete a senior thesis or project prior to graduation
Top six majors: biology/life sciences; social sciences; psychology; area, ethnic, and gender studies; visual/performing arts; interdisciplinary studies.
93 full-time faculty

94.2% of first-year students were in the top quarter of their high school class
Scripps students annually win research and fellowship grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Goldwater Scholarship, and Watson Fellowship programs, among others
Among the top 25 liberal arts colleges, Scripps College graduates a higher proportion of women with STEM degrees than all but two—Harvey Mudd College and the United States Naval Academy.* Scripps currently graduates a higher proportion of women with STEM degrees than any other women’s college in the nation, and more than all but six research universities in the United States. Of Scripps’ 2019 STEM graduates, 55% identify as women of color
Scripps is ranked in the top 25 among U.S. baccalaureate institutions credited with producing the greatest number of Fulbrights

* Of Scripps’ 2019 graduates, 35% are pursuing a STEM education, in comparison to the percentages of women graduating with STEM degrees at other liberal arts colleges

* Enrollment data from fall 2017-2018 census