Mission
Claremont McKenna College's mission is to prepare students for thoughtful and productive lives and responsible leadership in business, government, and the professions.
Principles
Claremont McKenna College pursues its mission by providing a liberal arts education that emphasizes economics and political science; promotes faculty and student scholarship that contributes to intellectual vitality and an understanding of public policy issues; supports a professoriate that is dedicated to effective undergraduate teaching; reinforces a close student-teacher relationship that fosters critical inquiry; sustains an active residential and intellectual environment; sponsors scholarly support for a faculty of teacher-scholars; and champions freedom of expression, viewpoint diversity, and constructive dialogue, as well as institutional neutrality, through The Open Academy.
Motto
Crescit cum commercio civitas.
“Civilization prospers with commerce.”