Private · Claremont, CA

Pitzer College

Q: What is Pitzer College’s acceptance rate?

Pitzer College admits 25.2% of applicants (2025 data).

Q: Does Pitzer College require the SAT or ACT?

Pitzer College’s testing policy is not considered.

Q: How much does Pitzer College cost after financial aid?

The average net price is $36,135 a year (2025). That is the sticker price minus grants and scholarships, averaged across students who receive aid. Your own price depends on your family’s finances.

Q: What is Pitzer College’s graduation rate?

83% of students finish within six years.

Get to know the college, from admissions and cost to life on campus.

25.2%acceptance rate

Overview

25%

Acceptance rate

$34,191

Net price per year

412

Freshman class

Suburban

Claremont, CA

pitzer.edu

Website

Pitzer runs on five explicit core values, social responsibility, environmental sustainability and interdisciplinary learning chief among them, organizing coursework into 30-plus Field Groups instead of departments. The close-knit community it markets has strained lately: the college's own student paper reports repeated over-enrollment, with displaced students routed to an annex a mile off campus.

About Pitzer College

Type: Liberal Arts College
Setting: Suburban
Undergraduates: 1,227

Admissions

Acceptance rate

25%

of 3,438 applicants

Application deadline

Nov 15

Binding

Early Decision/Early Action: Yes
Accepts Common App: Yes

Cost

Net price

$34,191 per year

Average after grants

What families pay, by incomeBars run to the $89,742 full cost

Tuition and aid

Full cost of attendance: $89,742per year
Average family income: $93,983
Students with a school grant: 36%
Average school grant: $45,002
Average federal debt: $15,625at graduation
Need-blind: —
Meets full need: Yes
Merit scholarships: Yes
CSS Profile: Not required
International aid: —

Academics

Students per faculty

10:1

Majors offered: 55
Freshmen who return: 94%
Notable: 2,130classes available across the five-college Claremont Consortium

Students

Freshman class

412 students

1,227 undergraduates in all

Who studies here

White47%

Hispanic12%

Asian13%

Black4%

Two or more races10%

International9%

Other or not reported5%

Campus life

Setting: Suburban
Location: Claremont, CA
Live on campus: —
Student organizations: —
Varsity sports: —

WHAT STUDENTS SAY

A close-knit campus that keeps running out of room

Pitzer's own campus doubles as an expression of its environmental-sustainability values: LEED-certified residence halls, drought-resistant desert gardens in place of a traditional quad, and a dining hall students across the Claremont Colleges consistently rate the best of the five. All first-year students live on campus, and Pitzer markets itself hard on closeness; students online describe the day-to-day tone as laid-back people who still work and study hard. That closeness has been tested recently: the college's own student newspaper reported Pitzer repeatedly over-enrolling a class and routing displaced students to an off-campus annex a mile away, something one resident assistant called cyclical.

Summarized by Spike from what students write: Pitzer Living at Pitzer, Pitzer Athletics and Recreation, Pitzer Clubs & Organizations, Student Reviews, The Student Life (Claremont Colleges student paper).