About the College
- Top-ranked, private, residential women’s liberal arts college, located in Southern California
- 94% 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
- 10:1 student/faculty ratio
- More than 65 majors at Scripps and The Claremont Colleges
- 15% of Scripps students choose a double or dual major
- All Scripps students are required to complete a senior thesis or project as part of their graduation requirements
- Top six majors: biology/life sciences, social sciences, psychology, communications/journalism, natural resources and conservation, English
- 102 full-time faculty
Exceptional Students
- 97.78% 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, National Science Foundation, and the Watson Fellowship program, among others
- Scripps is ranked in the top 25 among U.S. baccalaureate institutions credited with producing the greatest number of Fulbrights
Scripps confers a higher percentage STEM degrees than any other women’s college in the nation. We are also #3 among top liberal arts colleges in the percentage of women graduates who are STEM majors.*
*Data from Best Colleges, “Where Women Study STEM.”
Current Enrollment
- 1,082 total full-time undergraduate students and 20 post-baccalaureate students
- 41% students of color
- 5% international students
* Enrollment data from fall 2019-2020 Common Data Set