Location
Unlike the Five College Consortium, located entirely in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, albeit on separate and noncontiguous campuses, the Claremont Colleges are located in Claremont in the extreme eastern section of Los Angeles County, California. Five colleges are located within the Claremont College Consortium, including Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College. Two graduate schools are also located within, though one of the grad schools is actually located separately from the main campus area.
Accommodations
Like the Five Colleges in Hampshire County, the Claremont Colleges allow opportunities for cross-campus socializing as well as fluidity of movement. While cross-enrollment may not be as fluid as in the Five Colleges, the Claremont Colleges offer similar services to the Five Colleges albeit in the West Coast region of the United States in Southern California (SoCal).
Overlap with the Six Colleges
Within the Claremont Colleges, Pomona College is often associated with the Five Colleges’ Amherst College, though also with Bowdoin, Carleton, Swarthmore, and Williams Colleges. These colleges effectively represent the Six Colleges, with Amherst being included in the cluster with Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and UMass Amherst and Bowdoin being in the cluster with Colby and Bates also in its State of Maine.
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