colleges, and can complete an off-campus major if the major is not offered by Pitzer.
Pitzer offers 41 majors and 22 minors, many of them cross-disciplinary, and each student is assigned a faculty advisor upon their arrival on campus. The college expects students to take an active part in planning their course of study and has few distribution requirements. The most popular majors, based on 2021 graduates were:
Research and Experimental Psychology (22)
Environmental Science (20)
Organizational Behavior Studies (18)
Political Science and Government, General (18)
Economics (17)
The student/faculty ratio is 10:1, and 100% of Pitzer's tenure-track faculty hold a Ph.D. or the terminal degree in their field.
The college operates 58 study abroad programs, including 41 international exchanges and 6 domestic exchanges. Pitzer College also operates its own study abroad programs in Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Italy, Nepal, Tanzania/South Africa/Zimbabwe, and Vietnam.
Pitzer has ranked as a top producer of Fulbright US …