Slowly, classrooms and dorms were built and students began to fill them. By 1965, Harvey Mudd's tenth year, 284 students were enrolled in classes and faculty numbered 43. Harvey Mudd celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1975, with student enrollment at 497 and climbing.

In 1976, D. Kenneth Baker became the second president of Harvey Mudd College, followed by Henry E. Riggs in 1988 and Jon C. Strauss in 1997. Today, more than 700 extraordinary students are enrolled at Harvey Mudd College, learning through rigorous and challenging educational experiences from a highly committed faculty. Recently, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges reaffirmed the institutional accreditation of HMC. In their final report, the WASC team wrote, "Harvey Mudd is characterized by excellence and success, and is widely regarded as among the nation's best undergraduate science and engineering colleges."

Since its founding in 1955, Harvey Mudd College has been renowned for the excellence of its faculty and students, its independent spirit, the quality and innovation of its programs and the high caliber of its graduates. In just four decades Harvey Mudd has evolved from one family's ambitious dream to one of the foremost undergraduate institutions of science and engineering in the country.