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Top: Reference: Education: Colleges_and_Universities: North_America: United_States: New_York
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By definition, colleges are institutions of higher learning that grant the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both. Universities are institutions for higher learning with teaching and research facilities constituting a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the largest urban university in the United States and its third-largest public university system. The university is comprised of 21 campuses in all five boroughs of New York City.
Cazenovia College traces its birth to 1824, when it was founded as the Seminary of the Genesee Conference, the second Methodist seminary to be established in the United States. It opened in what had been the Madison County Courthouse.Over the years the seminary changed its name several times, first to the Seminary of the Genesee and Oneida conferences, later to the Oneida Conference Seminary, then to the Central New York Conference Seminary. In 1894 it became Cazenovia Seminary. Between 1904 and 1931 the institution also functioned as a secondary school for young people from the township, an arrangement that ended when Cazenovia Central High School was built.
This category lists websites about and from Columbia University, a member of the Ivy League and one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States.
Sites related to Cornell University, established April 20, 1865 as the land grant university of the State of New York and endowed by Ezra Cornell. An international center of research and scholarship, the University boasts several Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and other noteworthy scholars in the faculty of its 4 statutory (state-supported) and 13 endowed (private) units.Cornell's main campus occupies over 700 acres on East Hill, overlooking downtown Ithaca (Tompkins County); the Weill Medical College is located in Manhattan and the University maintains research centers at Geneva and elsewhere in New York. Prominent campus features include McGraw Tower, home of the Cornell Chimes; Willard Straight Hall, one of the oldest student unions in the U.S.; and the Cornell Plantations, an extensive network of gardens and arboreta.
Enrollment is approximately 18,000, including 13,000 undergraduates. The Big Red competes in NCAA Division I in the Ivy League and the East Coast Athletic Conference.
D'Youville College
Daemen College, grounded in a tradition of academic excellence, is committed to the personal and intellectual development of its students, and aims to develop men and women prepared to assume roles of responsibility in life.Daemen is located on a beautiful 39-acre suburban campus in Amherst, New York, a community rated again this year by Money Magazine as the safest mid-sized city in America. This location, in the Buffalo metropolitan region, enables students of the College to have ready access to world-class cultural attractions, first-rate theatre, professional sports, and outstanding restaurants and shopping. Additionally, Toronto, Canada, a booming and dynamic metropolitan region, is within easy driving distance of the Daemen campus.
Dominican College is an independent, four-year and master's-level liberal arts college for men and women, chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York and fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.It was founded in 1952 by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt as a three-year liberal arts college in the Catholic tradition, offering a teacher preparation program for women religious. In 1957 the College was opened to lay students, the first four of whom began classes in September.
The rapid expansion of the College and a desire to contribute to the educational and cultural growth of Rockland County encouraged the Board of Trustees to petition the Regents in 1959 for authorization to offer a four-year program leading to the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Science in Education. In that year also, programs in English and History were added to the curriculum.
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Hartwick is a nationally ranked, selective liberal arts and sciences college. Its residential campus of 1500 students is set on a wooded hillside overlooking the Susquehanna River Valley. Hartwick is a leader in integrating advanced technology into the classroom, and its study-abroad program is ranked in the top 20 nationally.
Houghton College provides an academically challenging Christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a changing world.
All sites related to Keuka College.
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Monroe College was founded in 1933 with a single goal: to prepare serious students, regardless of age or economic means, for successful careers in the world of business.
The Sisters of Saint Dominic of Newburgh founded Mount Saint Mary College in 1930. Initially, the college was a Normal and Teacher Training School for the members of the religious community. In 1959 the college charter was amended by the Board of Regents of the State of New York to accept lay students. Since opening its doors in 1960, the college's goals have been the pursuit and dissemination of truth and the development of the capacity to use it.
Nazareth College is a private, co-educational comprehensive college with a liberal arts and sciences core. Founded in 1924 by the Sisters of St. Joseph, Nazareth has been independent for more than 30 years. Situated on 94 wooded acres near the village of Pittsford, the current campus is comprised of 19 buildings, most connected by an underground tunnel system. In September, 2000, Nazareth contracted to purchase 73 acres of property and buildings adjacent to the campus, which will double the size of campus by 2003. A three-phase master plan is underway to utilize the new land in a way that will respond to the demand for a Nazareth education, a demand that has grown significantly along with the college's reputation for quality and value.
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Founded in 1831 with a desire to expand the traditional classical curriculum. Based in the heart of Greenwich Village in Manhattan, the University is a distinguished institution comprised of thirteen schools, colleges, and divisions at five major centers in Manhattan as well as branch campuses in Westchester and Rockland Counties.
Nyack College was founded in 1882. Total student enrollment is 1600 including students at the Manhattan campus as well as the Adult Degree Completion Program. The college is sponsored by The Christian and Missionary Alliance. Over 30 other denominations represented including Baptist, Assemblies of God, nondenominational Bible churches, and others.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, was the first degree-granting technological university in the English-speaking world, founded in 1824. Its 260-acre hilltop campus in the Capital District of New York houses programs in engineering, management and technology, pure science, information technology, and architecture, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.
The State University of New York is the largest comprehensive system of public higher education in the United States, offering programs at 64 geographically dispersed campuses.
Multi-denominational seminary offering programs leading to rabbinical ordination or cantorial ordination.
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This category is for sites related to the New School University, which is a private progressive-minded undergraduate and graduate college in New York City.
Jewish-sponsored independent institution of higher and professional education in New York City, established in 1971, including a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Schools of General Studies, Law and Health Sciences.
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This category consists of sites relating to two-year, post-secondary, educational institutions located in New York.
The University of Rochester was established in 1850, at the time as a Baptist-sponsored institution. The first postgraduate degree was awarded in 1897, and women were first admitted in 1900, in part due to the advocacy of Susan B. Anthony.One of the university's more prominent sponsors was George Eastman, founder of Eastman-Kodak. His patronage was largely responsible for the founding of the well-ranked School of Medicine and Dentistry and the renowned Eastman School of Music.
Other distinctions include the highly rated Institute of Optics and the Simon School, named for William E. Simon, former secretary of the U.S. Treasury, along with several notable graduate and research programs, and seven Nobel Prize winners and 11 Pulitzer Prize winners among its faculty and alumni.
The main campus, flanked by the Medical Center, lies along the Genesee River in the Finger Lakes area of western New York.
Utica College's history reaches back to the 1930s when Syracuse University operated extension courses in the Utica, N.Y. area. Utica College was established thanks to the efforts of business and community leaders in the Mohawk Valley who saw a need for such an institution. In 1946, Syracuse University launched Utica College. Originally, the school was located in a section of downtown Utica known as Oneida Square. In 1961, the school moved to its current site off of Burrstone Road.Utica College continues to offer the Syracuse University degree to undergraduates through a unique academic agreement with the University, although the College became a financially and legally independent institution in 1995. Since 1998, the College has offered graduate degree programs and has plans to expand its master's degree offerings.
Located in the Hudson Valley, Vassar is a highly selective, residential, liberal arts college founded in 1861 and coeducational since 1969. Undergraduate enrollment is approximately 2250.
Founded in 1886, Yeshiva University is the oldest and most comprehensive educational institution under Jewish auspices in the United States, with 17 undergraduate, graduate, and affiliated schools and divisions reflecting the full range of knowledge in the arts, sciences, and professions, and the richness of Jewish culture and thought.Rabbinic training and instruction in Jewish music are provided on the Main Campus at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of the University. The Yeshiva University High Schools provide college preparatory instruction for boys (Main Campus) and for girls (in Queens).
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