Which was founded first, Pomona College or Brown University?
Pomona College Pomona College is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States. Established in 1887, it is the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium. Pomona is a four-year undergraduate institution, and enrolled approximately 1,700 students representing 49 states and 63 countries in Fall 2017. The college maintains 48 majors and 600 courses, though students have access to nearly 2000 additional courses at the other Claremont Colleges.
Colonial colleges The colonial colleges are nine institutions of higher education chartered in the Thirteen Colonies before the United States of America became a sovereign nation after the American Revolution. These nine have long been considered together, notably in the survey of their origins in the 1907 "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature". Seven of the nine colonial colleges are part of the Ivy League athletic conference: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Brown, and Dartmouth. (The eighth member of the Ivy League, Cornell University, was founded in 1865.)