Collegiate University

The Claremont Colleges is a consortium of highly ranked, highly selective private colleges and universities located in the suburban neighbourhoods east of Los Angeles, California, that includes five liberal arts colleges and two graduate research universities. The consortium is unusual in that the member institutions are effectively co-located with one another on adjoining campuses and are much more closely integrated than is the case with comparable consortia, indeed, the consortium is modelled on the federal collegiate university model common to ancient European universities, particularly the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England.