College/University

Brandeis University (pronounced: brand-ice) is a private research university with a liberal arts focus, located in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, nine miles (14 km) west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. It was ranked by the U.S. News and World Report as the number 31 national university in the United States. Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a coeducational...

Eastern Connecticut State University is a public, coeducational liberal arts university and is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. ECSU is located in Willimantic, Connecticut on . Founded in 1889, it is the second-oldest campus in the Connecticut State University System and third oldest public university in the state. Situated 30 minutes from Hartford, Eastern lies midway between New York City and Boston. The campus is located south of the University of Connecticut on CT...

Central Connecticut State University is a state university in New Britain, Connecticut. It is the oldest public university and ranks third oldest of all universities in Connecticut, having been founded in 1849. Founded in 1849, Central Connecticut State University is the oldest public institution of higher education in Connecticut. At the beginning, the School was founded as a Normal School to train teachers. The Normal School at New Britain, Connecticut was the sixth normal school to be...

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Particularly well-known are its undergraduate school, Yale College, and the Yale Law School, each of which has produced a number of U.S. presidents and foreign heads of state. In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first U.S. school to award the Ph.D....

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities and is also a sea grant and space grant university. MIT was founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States. Although based upon German...

Wellesley College is a women's liberal arts college, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, that opened in 1875, founded by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline Fowle Durant. Today, the mission of the college is to "provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world." The college's motto, "Non Ministrari sed Ministrare" (not to be ministered unto but to minister), reflects this purpose. According to current U.S. News and World Report rankings, Wellesley...

The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Also known as Washington and locally as The U or UW (usually pronounced "U-Dub"), it is the largest university in the Northwestern United States and the oldest public university on the west coast. The UW maintains three locations, with its flagship campus in Seattle's University District and branch campuses in Tacoma and Bothell. Its operating budget for fiscal year 2005 was $3...

Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. The university is legally known as Columbia University in the City of New York. The institution was established as King's College by the Church of England, receiving a Royal Charter in 1754 from George II of Great Britain. It was the first college established in New York, and the...

Williams College is a highly selective private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. According to current U.S. News and World Report rankings, Williams is the #1 liberal arts college in the United States. As of 2008, the school has an enrollment of 1,997 undergraduate students and 49 graduate students. Williams was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams as a men's college, located in the Berkshires in northwestern Massachusetts, at the foot...

Amherst College is a highly selective private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Amherst is the #2 liberal arts college in the United States, according to current U.S. News and World Report rankings. Amherst has been ranked the best liberal arts college in the country nine times since the inception of the U.S. News rankings in 1983. It is the third oldest college in Massachusetts, and has been coeducation since 1975 in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary...

Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It began as the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school became Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The University’s 140-acre main campus is three miles from...

Connecticut College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. It is located on the Thames River, on which the College's crew and sailing teams practice. Connecticut College's riverside location and its wooded campus are reflected in the College seal. Connecticut College's fourth strategic plan (2004) introduced the College's new mission statement: Connecticut College educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens in a global society....

The College of DuPage, or COD, is the Midwest's largest single-campus two-year community college, with its main campus located in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The college also owns and operates facilities in the Illinois communities of Addison, Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Naperville, West Chicago, and Westmont. The college serves students residing in Illinois' Community College District 502, which is most of DuPage County and parts of Cook County and Will County. The college was established in 1967...