About Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research academic world in Claremont, California. Founded in 1925, CGU is a believer of the Claremont Colleges which includes five undergraduate (Pomona College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Scripps College, Pitzer College) and two graduate (CGU and Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences) institutions of forward-thinking education.

The university circles is organized into seven sever units: the School of Arts & Humanities; School of Community & Global Health; Drucker School of Management; School of Educational Studies; the School of Social Science, Policy, & Evaluation; the Center for Information Systems & Technology; and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. It is classified among “R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity”.

Claremont (/ˈklɛərmɒnt/) is a suburban city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, California, United States, 30 miles (48 km) east of downtown Los Angeles. It is in the Pomona Valley, at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 34,926, and in 2019 the estimated population was 36,266.

Claremont is the house of the Claremont Colleges and other literary institutions, and the city is known for its tree-lined streets as soon as numerous historic buildings. Because of this, it is sometimes referred to as “The City of Trees and Ph.Ds.” In July 2007, it was rated by CNN/Money magazine as the fifth best place to enliven in the United States, and was the highest rated place in California on the list. It was with named the best suburb in the West by Sunset Magazine in 2016, which described it as a “small city that blends worldly sophistication following small-town appeal.” In 2018, Niche rated Claremont as the 17th best place to sentient in the Los Angeles Place out of 658 communities it evaluated, based upon crime, cost of living, job opportunities, and local amenities.

The city is primarily residential, with a significant portion of its want ad activity located in “The Village,” a popular addition of street-front small stores, boutiques, art galleries, offices, and restaurants neighboring and west of the Claremont Colleges. The Village was expanded in 2007, adding a controversial multi-use further that includes an indie cinema, a boutique hotel, retail space, offices, and a parking structure on the site of an archaic citrus packing forest west of Indian Hill Boulevard.

Claremont has been a winner of the National Arbor Day Association’s Tree City USA award for 22 consecutive years. When the city incorporated in 1907, local citizens started what has become the city’s tree-planting tradition. Claremont is one of the few remaining places in North America past American Elm trees that have not been exposed to Dutch elm disease. The stately trees lineage Indian Hill Boulevard in the vicinity of the city’s Memorial Park.

The city hosts several large retirement communities, among them Pilgrim Place, the Claremont Manor and Mt. San Antonio Gardens.