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| | Claremont Colleges -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
 | | The group is made up of five undergraduate residential colleges (Pomona, Scripps, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, and Pitzer) plus the Claremont Graduate School. |
 | | city, Los Angeles county, southwestern California, U.S. Claremont lies in the Pomona Valley, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, adjacent to Pomona and 30 miles (50 km) east of Los Angeles. |
 | | It was founded in 1963, making it the youngest of the Claremont Colleges, and was a women's college until the early 1970s. |
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