by our College Data Analytics Team
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Claremont McKenna College was awarded 10 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is social sciences.
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Claremont McKenna landed the #43 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This lands it a coveted spot in the top 5% of all colleges and universities in the country.
Claremont McKenna also holds the #6 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
Even if you have the best grades and high test scores, that may not be enough to get into Claremont McKenna since the school has one of the most selective in the country. Its acceptance rate is a mere 10%, so there's no shame if you don't get in. Be sure to apply to other schools just in case.
About 28% of students accepted to Claremont McKenna submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 710 and 760. Math scores were between 730 and 790.
The student to faculty ratio at Claremont McKenna is an impressive 8 to 1. That's quite good when you compare it to the national average of 15 to 1. This is a good sign that students at the school will have more opportunities for one-on-one interactions with their professors.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Claremont McKenna College is 92%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 96% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Claremont McKenna College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Claremont McKenna for first-time, full-time students is 81%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,262 undergraduates at Claremont McKenna with 1,240 being full-time and 22 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8,000 | $8,341 | $19,161 | $19,384 | $52,737 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Claremont McKenna, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Claremont McKenna, approximately 30% of students took out student loans averaging $7,631 a year. That adds up to $30,524 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Claremont McKenna are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 500 E 9Th St, Claremont, CA 91711-6400 |
| Phone: | 909-621-8000 |
| Website: | www.cmc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Economics | 129 | $89,505 |
| Political Science & Government | 46 | $42,552 |
| Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies | 35 | NA |
| International Relations & National Security | 30 | NA |
| Child Development & Psychology | 29 | NA |
| Mathematics | 21 | NA |
| Philosophy | 21 | NA |
| Finance & Financial Management | 18 | NA |
| Systems Theory | 16 | NA |
| Computer Science | 13 | NA |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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