The University of Rochester is an elite private school in upstate New York. It was founded in 1929 as America’s first school specializing in optics.
The University of Rochester has since then grown in size and scope. Its campus now houses 158 buildings for its 10,500 students and over 2,000 faculty, giving the school an impressive 10:1 student-to-teacher ratio. Students can study over 200 majors.
The university, which has a $1.81 billion endowment, built a $7.5 million HIV/AIDS research center with support from the National Institutes of Health in 2013. Rochester made up almost a quarter of the scientists advising NASA during the creation of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will replace the Hubble in 2018.
The University of Rochester can claim 10 Pulitzer Prize winners, eight Nobel Prize Laureates, one MacArthur Fellow, and 20 Guggenheim Fellows. The school’s four libraries house over 3.5 million volumes and many musical scores. Rochester also has a memorial 50-bell carillon.
