Pomona College is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States. Established in 1887, it is the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium. Pomona is a four-year undergraduate institution, and enrolled approximately 1,700 students representing 49 states and 63 countries in Fall 2017. The college maintains 48 majors and 600 courses, though students have access to nearly 2000 additional courses at the other Claremont Colleges.The college's 140-acre (57 ha) main campus is in a residential community near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. The campus is immediately adjacent to the "Village", an area of Claremont that has grown around the college, providing residents with dining and shopping options. Situated within the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, Pomona encourages students to take advantage of the region's cultural and academic offerings by funding off-campus excursions and internships.Pomona College is ranked first among all liberal art colleges (and tenth among all undergraduate colleges) in the United States by Forbes and sixth among all liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report. It had an 8.4% acceptance rate for the Class of 2021 admissions cycle and an endowment of $1.98 billion as of June 2016, ranking it among four-year colleges with the lowest admissions rate and giving it the sixth-highest endowment per student of any college or university in the United States. Seventy-four percent of enrolled students hail from out of state, 56% receive need-based financial aid, and 59% self-identify as domestic students of color or international students.