Scripps College

Scripps College is a private institution that was founded in 1926. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,081 (fall 2022), its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 32 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Scripps College's ranking in the 2024 edition of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, #35. Its tuition and fees are $63,434.

Scripps College, a liberal arts women’s college, is located 30 miles east of Los Angeles in Claremont, Calif., at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. Scripps is a member of the Claremont Colleges consortium, which also includes Claremont McKenna College, Pomona College, Pitzer College and Harvey Mudd College. There are a variety of student clubs on campus, ranging from cultural organizations to academic interest groups, recreational clubs to fine arts and performing groups. Most students live on campus in one of the nine residence halls or apartments. A few popular campus locations are the Motley Coffeehouse, a nonprofit, student-run coffee house, and the Sallie Tiernan Field House, a state-of-the-art athletics and fitness center. Scripps fields joint athletic teams with Claremont McKenna and Harvey Mudd, known as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas.

The Core Curriculum at Scripps consists of three courses in the humanities all centered on the theme of "Culture, Knowledge and Representation." In addition to the Core Curriculum, the school requires that students take courses in the fine arts, letters, natural sciences, social sciences, race and ethnic studies, gender and women’s studies, foreign languages and mathematics. Scripps gives credit for many off-campus study programs in countries all over the world such as Israel, Morocco, Greece, South Africa and Denmark. Scripps has its own font - Scripps College Old Style - and printing press, the Scripps College Press.