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The University of Rochester is one of the country’s top-tier research universities. Our 158 buildings house more than 200 academic majors, more than 2,000 faculty and instructional staff, and some 9,300 students—approximately half of whom are women.

Learning at the University of Rochester is also on a very personal scale. Rochester remains one of the smallest and most collegiate among top research universities, with smaller classes, a low 9:1 student to teacher ratio, and increased interactions with faculty.

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The Institute of Optics was founded in 1929 as the nation’s first educational program devoted exclusively to optics. It is widely considered one of the nation’s premier optics schools and is a leader in basic optical research and theory.

The Laboratory for Laser Energetics’ 60-beam OMEGA laser is the world’s most powerful fusion laser.

When the University pioneered the Take Five Scholars Program two decades ago, it was heralded by the New York Times as "one of the most innovative liberal arts programs in the country." Since then, the program has allowed more than 900 students to study, tuition free, for an additional semester or year in areas outside their formal majors.

More people in Rochester have been immunized against bird flu than in any other community in the world, thanks to the University’s role testing bird-flu vaccines. In 2007, a $26 million NIH grant established the University of Rochester Medical Center as one of three national research centers for bird flu and pandemic flu.

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Central Michigan University, with a main campus in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and more than 60 locations across the U.S., is nationally recognized for academic excellence in more than 200 programs. Cutting edge research, new facilities, graduate programs and top faculty ensure an education that is one of the best in the state.

But what really sets Central apart from other schools is difficult to describe. We call it "the CMU experience." It’s the fact that nearly half of all CMU freshmen participate in leadership training their first week on campus. Or that CMU recently won a national award for assisting victims of Hurricane Katrina. Or it’s that special professor who still remembers your name after 20 years. It’s a spirit that defies definition. That’s CMU.

About CMU

Central Michigan University is one of the nation’s top 100 largest public higher education institutions and Michigan’s fourth largest public university.

Founded in 1892 and becoming a university in 1959, CMU is committed to providing students with a superior learning environment and global perspective to compete in an increasingly complex world.

With more than 20,000 students on its Mount Pleasant campus and another 7,000 enrolled online and at 60 locations in the United States, Canada and Mexico, CMU offers an impressive breadth of 200 academic programs, including nationally ranked programs in entrepreneurship, journalism, music, audiology, teacher education, psychology and physician assistant. CMU also is moving forward with establishing a college of medicine.

Our accomplished professors share a strong commitment to teaching and a focus on engaging students in applied research, scholarship and creative activity. Our undergraduate and graduate classes are led by faculty experts who blend theory with hands-on experience to help students get the most out of their courses.

Academic Programs

Central Michigan University, with a main campus in Mount Pleasant and more than 60 locations across the U.S., is nationally recognized for academic excellence in more than 200 programs.

Cutting edge research, new facilities, graduate programs and top faculty ensure a quality education. And with accelerated classes and online course options you will get a quality education on your terms.

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Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

HISTORY
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892. In December 1924, the provisions of James B. Duke’s indenture created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman’s College of Duke University until 1972, when the men’s and women’s undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

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Founded in 1855 by attorney and abolitionist Ovid Butler, Butler occupies 290 acres in Indianapolis’ Butler-Tarkington neighborhood. The University emphasizes a liberal arts-based education with the goal of teaching clear and effective communication, appreciation of beauty, and a commitment to lifelong learning, community service and global awareness.
Butler offers more than 60 majors. Over the past five years, our graduates have enjoyed an average 96 percent job placement rate, with 100 percent in education and pharmacy. There’s always something new to learn about Butler. Get the facts here.

Butler University Ranks Second Among Best Colleges

Butler University moved up from the fourth position to second in the Master’s Midwest category in the 2010 issue of U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges. This is Butler’s 21st consecutive year of being ranked in the top 10 of this category. To be included in the Master’s category, a university must offer a broad scope of undergraduate degrees and some master’s degree programs but few, if any, doctoral programs. The 557 universities in this category are ranked within four geographic areas – North, South, Midwest and West.

After universities are grouped according to their region, they are then ranked in several indicators of academic excellence such as peer assessment, freshman retention, graduation rate, student/faculty ratio, acceptance rate and alumni giving rate. Butler sustained its performance in virtually every criterion and improved in the following five areas:

• 87% in average freshman retention; 85% the previous year.
• 56% of classes under 20; 53% the previous year.
• 3% of classes of 50 or more; 4% the previous year.
• 78% of freshmen in the top 25% of graduating high school class; 77% the previous year.
• 1080-1280 SAT in 25th-75th percentile; 1070-1280 the previous year.

"It is gratifying to see Butler continue to make steady improvements in standard criteria for educational excellence," remarked Butler President Bobby Fong.

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From its beginnings in a schoolhouse in lower Manhattan, Columbia University has grown to encompass two principal campuses: the historic, neoclassical campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood and the modern Medical Center further uptown, in Washington Heights. Today, Columbia is one of the top academic and research institutions in the world, conducting pathbreaking research in medicine, science, the arts, and the humanities. It includes three undergraduate schools, thirteen graduate and professional schools, and a school of continuing education.

MISSION STATEMENT

Columbia University is one of the world’s most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF COLUMBIA

Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King’s College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.
Controversy preceded the founding of the College, with various groups competing to determine its location and religious affiliation. Advocates of New York City met with success on the first point, while the Anglicans prevailed on the latter. However, all constituencies agreed to commit themselves to principles of religious liberty in establishing the policies of the College.

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Lehigh University is recognized across the globe as a premier residential research university, ranking in the top tier of research universities each year. Lehigh offers students the best of both worlds: the small, personal setting of a liberal arts school, with a research 1 environment. We are a comprehensive university, offering majors and programs in four colleges: arts and sciences, business, education and engineering.

In 1865, Asa Packer, an industrial pioneer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founded the university. Packer recognized the need for workers who were broadly educated in the liberal arts and sciences—young people who could combine practical skills with theory, judgment, reasoning and self-discipline. That vision remains true and clear today.

During their time at Lehigh, students are immersed in a distinctive learning experience that encourages learning in and outside of the classroom. The focus is on an interdisciplinary education, which nurtures the capacity to think deeply, nimbly and creatively – all skills necessary to transform ambitions into accomplishments. Our graduates leave as accomplished scholars who are well-equipped to tackle complex challenges, and to lead change.

More than 4,600 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students call Lehigh’s beautiful campus “home.” Nestled in the heart of the Lehigh Valley, the 1,600-acre campus is within close proximity to urban centers such as New York City and Philadelphia

Letter from the President – Alice P. Gast

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The Mission of the University

Fordham University, the Jesuit University of New York, is committed to the discovery of Wisdom and the transmission of Learning, through research and through undergraduate, graduate and professional education of the highest quality. Guided by its Catholic and Jesuit traditions, Fordham fosters the intellectual, moral and religious development of its students and prepares them for leadership in a global society

History

Fordham University is an independent university in the Jesuit tradition. It was established in 1841 as St. John’s College by the Right Rev. John Hughes, Coadjutor-Bishop (later Archbishop) of New York, on old Rose Hill Manor in the village of Fordham, then part of Westchester County. The name Fordham is derived from the Anglo-Saxon words “ford” and “ham,” meaning a wading place or ford by a settlement. Rose Hill is the name given to the site in 1787 by Robert Watts, a wealthy New York merchant, in honor of his family’s ancestral home of the same name in Scotland. The College, which opened with a student body of six, was originally staffed by diocesan clergy. In 1846, the year the New York State Legislature granted the College a charter, Bishop Hughes

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