Claremont Graduate University

Overview

Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private research university located in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1925 initially as Claremont University College. It then underwent a few name and structural changes until it acquired its current name and structure in 1998. The university is a member of the Claremont Colleges, which includes two graduate and five undergraduate educational institutions. It is ranked among the top universities in the United States.

Claremont Graduate University Key Statistics

CGU is organized into seven academic units. These include the School of Arts & Humanities, the School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation, the School of Community & Global Health, and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. It offers a total of 36 programs, which include 19 master’s, 9 doctoral, 5 dual and joint degrees, and two certificate/non-degrees. Some of its most sought-after courses include economics, human resource management, politics, and evaluation and applied research online.

Being a graduate school, the university has an enrollment of around 2,261 master's and Ph.D. students. It employs 111 full-time and 88 part-time academic staff.

The main library on the CGU campus is the Honnold/Mudd Library, with its 2 million volumes of books, an extensive collection of journals, magazines, and newspapers as well as access to articles in 70,000 periodicals. The university has its own computer museum called the Paul Gray PC Museum.

Other Claremont Graduate University key statistics include its distinguished alumni that include Stephen Cambone (first U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence), Joyce Appleby (historian at UCLA), and Min-Shun "Diana" Chen (Chairperson/CEO, Taipei World Financial Center).

Claremont Graduate University Research

CGU is classified among the "R2: Doctoral Universities – High Research Activity" in the US, with a research budget of almost $8 million in 2020. This funding comes from organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the National Cancer Institute.

The university’s top three research fields are psychology, computer science, and economics. Its researchers have published in publications like American Psychologist, The Missouri Review, and Nature. Many of them have also been invited to attend/present papers at prestigious conferences such as the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, the Americas Conference on Information Systems, and Decision Support Systems.

The most cited publication produced by Claremont Graduate University research is Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi's (2000) “Positive psychology: An introduction,” published in the American Psychologist. It has received a total of 15,064 citations so far. The university's second most cited research output is Peffers et al.'s (2007) “A design science research methodology for information systems research,” published in The Missouri Review. It has been cited 6,879 times. The third most cited study is Kosfeld et al.'s (2005) “Oxytocin increases trust in humans.” It was published in 2005 and has been cited by 4,531 papers, articles, and other publications.

The research centers and groups of Claremont Graduate University include the School of Community & Global Health, the School of Educational Studies, the Center for Information Systems & Technology, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation, and the Drucker School of Management.