Founded in 1925, CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges consortium which includes five undergraduate and two graduate institutions of higher education.

This is called "Transdisciplinarity" and is an essential component of Claremont Graduate University's functioning theory of pedagogy.

[4] The school is home to more than 2,000 master's and PhD students, as well as approximately 200 full and part-time faculty members.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has classified Claremont Graduate University as a CompDoc/NMedVet: Comprehensive doctoral (no medical/veterinary) with high research activity.

[5] Its seven academic units and other related programs and institutes award master's and/or doctoral degrees in 31 disciplines.

[6] Among the contiguous CGU, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, and undergraduate colleges (Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Scripps, and Pitzer), cross-registration is free, and the members share libraries, health care, security, and other facilities.

These subjects have an interest in interdisciplinary studies that provide disciplinary depth as well as cross-disciplinary flexibility.

The program also offers the first Ph.D. degree in neuroeconomics which bridges economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Unconstrained by a typical business school structure, students are allowed to focus specifically on those topics associated with IS&T.

In conjunction with the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont Graduate University offers master's and doctoral degrees in botany emphasizing systematics and evolution of higher plants.

In July 2007, CNN/Money magazine ranked Claremont as one of the top 5 places to live in the United States.

Stauffer Hall and Albrecht auditorium The Academic computing building The ACB is a three-story, 27,000-square-foot (2,500 m2) facility completed in 1985, which was renovated in 2009 to include the third floor.

Named after CGU fellow Ronald Burkle, it is currently home to the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management.

[13] A year later, the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award was established to recognize a poet of promise.