About the College
- Top-ranked, private, residential women’s liberal arts college
- 99.7% 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
Academic Excellence
- 11:1 student/faculty ratio
- More than 65 majors at Scripps and The Claremont Colleges
- 25% 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, psychology, media studies, English, economics, and computer science
- 127 full-time faculty
Exceptional Students
- 90% 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
- Scripps is ranked in the top 25 among U.S. baccalaureate institutions credited with producing the greatest number of Fulbrights
Current Enrollment
- 1,039 undergraduate students
- 37% students of color
- 5% international students
* Enrollment data from fall 2016 census
