About Scripps At a Glance

At a Glance

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  • Top-ranked, private, residential women’s liberal arts college, located in Southern California
  • 97 percent 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
  • 65 majors at Scripps and The Claremont Colleges
  • 100 percent of Scripps students complete a senior thesis or project, required for graduation
  • Top majors include politics, psychology, biology, environmental analysis, English, media studies, and neuroscience
  • 99 percent of full-time faculty have a terminal degree

Exceptional Students

  • 97 percent 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 consistently a top producer among US baccalaureate institutions credited with producing the greatest number of Fulbrights

Current Enrollment

  • 1,117 total undergraduate students and 14 post-baccalaureate students
  • 41 percent students of color
  • 4.5 percent international students

* Enrollment data from fall 2024–25 Common Data Set

Rankings and Achievements

Scripps College continues to be ranked highly among the most academically prestigious colleges in the country.

The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal ranks Scripps College as #1 in student experience among U.S. colleges and universities for 2024–25.

U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report ranks Scripps College as #44 in National Liberal Arts Colleges in the U.S. for 2024–25, #80 in Best Value Schools, #61 in Best Undergraduate Teaching, and #144 in Top Performers on Social Mobility.

The Princeton Review
Princeton Review ranks Scripps College as a Best Value College, Best Western College, and one of its Best 389 Colleges nationally for 2024. Scripps also ranked high in the categories of “LGBTQ Friendly” and “Professors Get High Marks,” among others.

Forbes
Forbes ranks Scripps College #48 in liberal arts colleges in its 2024–25 top colleges list.