2024-2025 Pitzer Catalog

This Catalog is in effect for the 2024-2025 academic year (August 26, 2024 - August 22, 2025).

About Pitzer College

Founded in 1963, Pitzer College is a top-ranked liberal arts and sciences college. The College emphasizes environmental and interdisciplinary studies, the arts, humanities and social, behavioral and natural sciences. With approximately 1,000 students, Pitzer College is part of The Claremont Colleges - a unique consortium of five undergraduate colleges and two graduate institutions. The contiguous campuses share numerous programs and facilities. At Pitzer, students have access to all the resources of a major university while enjoying all the benefits of a liberal arts college experience and its personalized approach to education.

Pitzer students shape their own college experience. Focused educational objectives guide undergraduates as they plan their academic careers. Students can work with faculty advisers to create their own special majors. They are encouraged to collaborate with community members on local projects and critically examine the effects of social and environmental policies. Students actively participate in college governance by serving on committees or becoming voting members of College Council, the College’s decision-making body.

Pitzer College celebrates cultural diversity and intercultural understanding. Students from different socioeconomic, ethnic and geographic backgrounds come to Pitzer from across the globe. In addition to learning from one another, students are encouraged to participate in one of more than 40 international exchanges available through Pitzer’s study abroad programs, helping them learn a foreign language and deepening their appreciation of global diversity.

Pitzer is located in Claremont, a Southern California college town known for its eclectic restaurants and shops, close-knit community and network of trails and parks. Situated at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, Claremont is an hour’s drive to downtown Los Angeles, the Pacific coast, the desert highlands and some of the tallest mountain peaks in Southern California.

Accreditations and Authorizations

Pitzer College is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC). WASC is an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education.

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Pitzer College is authorized by the California Department of Consumer Affairs Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to offer programs beyond secondary education, including programs leading to a degree, in accordance with Section 600.9 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Contact information for the California Bureau for Postsecondary Education is available on the BPPE website.