CMC’s founders aspired to create the most effective model for educating students for responsible leadership, forming a residential liberal arts college distinguished by focused academic programs and commitments to leadership and research. This distinctive model for undergraduate education has provided a powerful path for the pursuit of our mission and the sustained success of our students, faculty, and alumni.
The Campaign for CMC: Responsible Leadership will ensure that the College continues to deliver on its liberal arts and leadership mission and provide a full CMC experience to all students. Derived from The 2019 CMC Strategy Report, which critically evaluated the College’s future, the Campaign will focus on three priorities.
Intellectual Rigor
At CMC, we are dedicated to intellectual rigor and depth through world-class faculty who are among the best in their fields and who inspire students by giving them the confidence and capacity to think critically, speak freely, debate respectively, and listen actively.
The Open Academy
A commitment to freedom of expression, viewpoint diversity, and constructive dialogue develops a critical response to the educational imperative of our time: overcoming what divides us to solve the world’s most challenging problems.
Leadership Development
Today’s global challenges call for responsible leaders to contribute effective solutions to the greatest problems we face, and CMC’s distinctive model for undergraduate education has provided a powerful path for the pursuit of our mission.
The Roberts Campus
Tour the new Roberts Campus which allows CMC to realize our campus master plan by doubling the campus footprint and encouraging engagement and interaction for current and future generations of leaders in business, government and the professions.
Robin Peterson ’22Claremont McKenna’s once-a-year surf-ski day was a compelling bonus to Robin Peterson’s list of pros for the College.“CMC offered everything I could have hoped for,” said Peterson ’22. “On top of the beautiful weather, the small school made it possible for me to engage in everything from great academics, to running track, to having Army ROTC.”READ STORY
Rachana Muvvala ’24When Rachana Muvvala ’24 played the stock market game in a high school economics class, she was hooked. “It showed me how fun and interesting the stock market can be,” she says. “Since we were playing at the peak of COVID-19’s market disruption, every morning, I would wake up and be greeted by a loss — yet the thrill from possibly gaining that money back excited me.”READ STORY
Brooklyn Button ’22After attending high schools in the Netherlands, Iowa, and California because of family moves, Brooklyn Button ’22 knew what to look for in a college. Size topped the list of her priorities. Location was another.“I value the culture of a small school since I enjoy really getting to know my peers and teachers,” she said. She also realized...READ STORY
Annie Raines ’22What Annie Raines ’22 learned at Claremont McKenna College goes beyond academics—way beyond. Raines, who dual majored in economics and history, feels not only prepared for her career as an investment banking analyst at Citi in New York City, but also confident she can handle whatever the future holds. CMC was her training ground for the real world in all its facets.READ STORY