The Claremont Colleges are an American consortium of five undergraduate and two graduate schools of higher education located in Claremont, California, a city east of downtown Los Angeles and west of downtown San Bernardino.

Unlike most other collegiate consortia, such as the Five College Consortium in Massachusetts and the Tri-College Consortium in Pennsylvania, the Claremont College campuses are adjoining and within walking distance of one another.

Put together, the campuses cover roughly.

Pitzer College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont, California, United States, a college town approximately east of downtown Los Angeles.

The college has a curricular emphasis on the social sciences, behavioral sciences, international programs, and media studies.

It is one of the Claremont Colleges, considered by many to be West-Coast Ivy League equivalent schools (including the other Claremont Colleges, Stanford University, Reed College, and University of California Los Angeles).

For the class of 2020 the college reported an acceptance rate of 12.9%, one of the top-five lowest acceptance rates of liberal arts colleges in the world.

Harvey Mudd College (HMC) is a private residential liberal arts college of science, engineering, and mathematics, founded in 1955 and located in Claremont, California, United States.

It is one of the institutions of the contiguous Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds.

The college's is: "Harvey Mudd College seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities and the social sciences so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the impact of their work on society.".

Scripps College, founded in 1926, is a liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California, United States, with an enrollment of 989 students.

It is a member of the Claremont Colleges, a liberal arts consortium.

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.