Cal Poly Pomona

The campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, began as the winter ranch of one of America's most recognizable brand names. In the nineteen twenties, cereal mogul W.K.

Kellogg built a retreat on eight hundred acres in Pomona and filled it with prized Arabian horses. He bred champions, hosted Sunday horse shows for the public, and eventually donated the entire property to the University of California, and it passed to the state in nineteen forty-nine. Cal Poly Pomona opened its doors on that land in nineteen fifty-six, inheriting the stables, the rose gardens, the avocado groves, and the horses, which the university still breeds and shows today.

It now enrolls more than twenty-six thousand students in agriculture, engineering, architecture, and business, and it is one of the few universities in the country where you can watch a livestock show and an architecture critique happening at the same time.