About CGU

For more than 90 years, Claremont Graduate University has been a leader in graduate education. Limited enrollment, renowned faculty, and small class sizes devoted entirely to graduate study—at CGU we put students first.

Through practice-based research, CGU’s ambitious students gain the tools to solve pressing real-world problems and build meaningful careers. To learn more, explore our website, take a virtual tour, or make plans to visit our beautiful Claremont campus in person: www.cgu.edu 

• School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation
  • With world-renowned faculty, the School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation helps instill in its students a strong understanding of theoretical frameworks, advanced research methodologies, and the ability to transform theory into practice.
    
    The School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation comprises the Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences and the Division of Politics & Economics.
    
    
    
• Drucker School of Management
  • The Peter F. Drucker & Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management focuses on instilling management skills that enable graduates to have remarkable careers and make a difference in the world.
    
    Students are trained to think rigorously and ethically about complex issues in business and management, to make sound strategic decisions, and to lead others to achieve common purposes.
    
    
• School of Arts & Humanities
  • The School of Arts & Humanities offers a breadth of scholarship opportunities within traditional and interdisciplinary programs of study.
    
    Taught by expert faculty who are leaders in their fields, our extensive and diverse curriculum trains scholars, practitioners, artists, and musicians for successful careers.
    
    
• School of Community & Global Health
  • The School of Community & Global Health is catalyzing a new vision of how humankind conceptualizes and promotes health that extends far beyond the scope of traditional paradigms.
    
    Our programming convenes top minds from science, public health, government, business, and the community to engage in creative problem solving that leads to innovations in health, well-being, and quality of life.
    

• School of Educational Studies
  • CGU’s School of Educational Studies believes a socially just nation should educate all its citizenry through networks of effective and accountable organizations that interact responsibly with families and communities.
    
    In support of this mission, the school trains leaders who are committed to thought, action, scholarship, and stewardship—the system’s most responsible critics and prolific architects.

• The Center for Information Systems & Technology
  • The Center for Information Systems & Technology (CISAT) prepares outstanding professionals and educators to assume leadership positions within the field of Information Systems & Technology with a strong grounding in software development, database systems, networking, and information systems and technology management.
    
    Led by faculty fully devoted to IS&T scholarship, CISAT’s research-infused instruction is practical in focus and valuable for recent undergraduates and working professionals alike.
    

• Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  • The Institute of Mathematical Sciences seeks to advance areas of national and global need in mathematics and to train new generations of mathematical scientists for positions in education, industry, and government.
    
    Through its internationally recognized Engineering & Industrial Applied Mathematics Clinic, the Institute provides students first-hand experience solving significant mathematical problems for business and government clients.
    

Why CGU?

• Collaborative learning across disciplines

It’s a hallmark of CGU. Faculty teach and conduct research across disciplines to look at problems in new ways. You gain insight by taking courses outside your field and even pursue advanced degrees by blending programs. With a purposefully-small median class size of 9, we are able to collaborate, to innovate, to stay current.

• Member of The Claremont Colleges
  
  Being part of the highly reputable Claremont Colleges provides CGU students with access to superior resources and services. As a CGU student, you can take classes with many of the 550 faculty members in the colleges, make use of four libraries with more than two million volumes, and involve yourself in a host of affiliated organizations, programs, and institutes.
  
  
• Globally known faculty scholars

CGU faculty are widely recognized as leaders in their fields who bring the latest expertise into the classroom and conduct applied research that improves the world. They also work to nurture the next generation of leaders, building close, collaborative working relationships with students to help them develop their own professional reputation while still students.

• Inclusive community

Our commitment to cultural and intellectual diversity fosters interaction that leads to novel and creative answers to issues facing our world.

• Specialized, recognized programs
  
  CGU offers a range of highly specialized programs that provide a strong base for customization. Our English, History, Fine Arts, Math, Psychology, Economics, and Political Science programs are highly ranked by U.S. News & World Report.
  
  
• Practice-based learning
  
  Many of our academic programs are practice-based, so you start working in your field even as you're learning—through researching and publishing with leading faculty, completing internships, and participating in required practica. By graduation, you can show the world you know your field.
  
  
• Meaningful employment
  
  Practice-based learning means that the work you do here positions you to launch a meaningful career after graduation. You can immediately apply all you’ve learned to improve lives and transform the world.
  
  
• Powerful network
  
  Becoming a CGU student means that you are part of a network that positively impacts your studies and career. As a student, you are part of a collaborative learning cadre of peers and faculty mentors. A focus on practice-based learning engages you with a professional network even before you graduate. With an accomplished alumni network of more than 23,000 members worldwide and a supportive career development team, you have the tools to advance your career.
  
  
• All graduate, all the time
  
  CGU is the only research-extensive university in the nation devoted entirely to graduate-level education. In most other graduate schools, professors are divided between undergraduate responsibilities and their graduate students. Here, your professors are “graduate only,” meaning they are dedicated only to you and to the highest levels of teaching, scholarship, and service. All of your peers are graduate level, and they are equally committed to the pursuit of knowledge. CGU student services are targeted specifically toward a graduate-only population, so you'll find robust resources for career development, rhetoric and writing, and training future faculty.
  
  
• Energetic location
  
  Situated on a 19-acre tree-filled campus, CGU is an easy walk to public transportation and to the heart of Claremont Village, home to a host of unique restaurants, boutiques, shopping, and nightlife. Our students benefit from the vitality and opportunity of all that Southern California has to offer. Extensive resources and potential employers are in close proximity, along with plenty of recreational activities, all under the glow of the California sun.