Claremont McKenna College
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Former names
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Claremont Men's College |
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| Motto | Crescit cum commercio civitas (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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Civilization prospers with commerce |
| Type | Private liberal arts college |
| Established | 1946 |
| Endowment | $709.1 million (2016) |
| President | Hiram Chodosh |
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Academic staff
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134 |
| Students | 1,349 (Fall 2015) |
| Undergraduates | 1,328 (Fall 2015) |
| Postgraduates | 21 (Fall 2015) |
| Location | Claremont, California, USA |
| Campus | Suburban, 69 acres (28 ha) |
| Colors | Maroon and Black |
| Athletics | NCAA Division III – SCIAC |
| Nickname | Stags (men), Athenas (women) |
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| Website | cmc.edu |
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| National | |
| Forbes | 31 |
| Liberal arts colleges | |
| U.S. News & World Report | 8 |
| Washington Monthly | 33 |
Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is an independent, coeducational, and private liberal arts college with a curricular emphasis on economics, government, and public affairs. CMC is also a member of the Claremont Colleges located in Claremont, California, United States.
Founded as a men's college in 1946, CMC became coeducational in 1976. Its 69-acre campus is located 35 miles (56 km) east of Downtown Los Angeles. The college focuses primarily on undergraduate education, but in 2007 it established the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, which offers a master's program in finance. As of 2016, there are 1,344 undergraduate students and postgraduate students.
Forbes ranks CMC as the 31st-best college in the nation, the 13th-best liberal arts college, and the 3rd-best college in the West in its 2016 rankings. CMC is tied for 8th with Carleton and Haverford in U.S. News & World Report's 2016 ranking of liberal arts colleges.
Claremont McKenna College was founded as Claremont Men's College after the end of World War II. Many of its first students were war veterans attending college on the G.I. Bill. CMC was founded with the mission to foster leadership in its students in the fields of government, economics, and international affairs.
The school became coeducational in 1976 and was renamed after Donald McKenna, a founding trustee, in 1981. The name change allowed the college to keep its popular acronym, "CMC". The college's motto is "Crescit cum commercio civitas", or "Civilization prospers with commerce".
On October 31, 1989, a striptease took place in CMC's dining hall that was arranged as a birthday present for a male student. The incident sparked discussion about CMC's student culture and the sexist attitudes some students perceived it to have.
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