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As a top research University with a self-directed curriculum, in a friendly
college town with a global impact, the University of Rochester guides students
from the widest possible sense of freedom to an individualized, assured sense
of focus. By the time they graduate, students have learned how to pursue what
they love and serve as driving forces for innovation. The University graduates
students, networked together, each with maximum courage and confidence to
find the top of their own field after college.
THE UNIVERSIT Y OF ROCHESTER
Imagine a university that nurtures each student’s growth in his or her own preferred way.
The University of Rochester Medical Center includes several world-class
teaching hospitals and hosts millions of dollars in sponsored annual projects.
Students in the College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering, the Laboratory
for Laser Energetics, and the other professional schools develop problem-
solving skills, gain useful academic and career experience, and make significant
contributions to their communities. Beyond the City of Rochester, University
students conduct research in Japan, Italy, Malawi, Antarctica, and many other
locations around the state, the country, and the world.
RESEARCH
As one of the nation’s top-tier research universities, the University of Rochester is an ideal place for
undergraduate research.
Rochester’s academics are unlike most at other schools because of the extraordinary
opportunities to conduct undergraduate research, to streamline your track to a
graduate program, and to have untraditional combinations of majors and minors.
The seven schools that comprise the University of Rochester include one of the
country’s best nursing schools, a competitive business school, a distinguished
medical center, a top engineering school, an innovative school of education, and
one of the world’s premier creative forces in music. Across these schools, students
utilize state-of-the-art technology and facilities to support their unique and self-
driven education.
ACADEMICS
With Rochester’s open curriculum, students explore their curiosity and passions to create a personalized course of study.
Not only have they earned impressive academic credentials, but they also
represent every US state and territory and more than 100 countries. Students in
every academic discipline earn internships, run enterprises and philanthropic
events, study abroad, and pursue graduate study after Rochester. Each student
creates a personal blend of activities by choosing among hundreds of student-
run organizations, 23 NCAA Division III sports, and nightly campus events.
Most of the 5,000 undergraduates live on campus all four years, and more than
90% are leaders in at least one field or group, making life on campus exciting
and close-knit.
STUDENTS
Students at the University are diverse, curious, and driven.
Just like their students, professors come to the River Campus from across
the US and around the world. Rochester’s professors are committed to their
students as partners in their lifelong scholarship and research, in a ratio of
1:10. Many students “major in a professor,” taking several courses and joining
projects with committed, passionate, and renowned scholars who don’t separate
research from teaching.
FACULT Y
At the University, there are more than two thousand leading, prize-winning faculty and instructional staff.
Chunlei Guo,Professor of Optics
A. Joan Saab,Associate Professor,Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
Cilas Kemedjio, Associate Professor of French and Director of Frederick Douglass Institute for African & African American Studies
Carmala Garzione, Professor and Chair,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Countless students have graduated from the University since its founding to
become Nobel Prize winners, Academy Award winners, authors, inventors,
government leaders, actors, CEOs, astronauts, and opera singers. They are
invested in Rochester’s legacy and remain actively involved, generously
donating to the University and mentoring new students about their studies
and professional ambitions.
ALUMNI
Rochester alumni form a network that reaches over 140 countries around the globe.
Nomi Bergman ’85,President of Bright House Networks
Erica Fee ’99,Rochester Fringe Festival Producer
Fred Guterl ’81,executive editor of Scientific American and author of Fate of the Species
Steven Chu ’70, Nobel laureate in physics, and former Secretary of the US Department of Energy
Within 10 minutes’ walk, you find ten dining locations, residence halls for
more than 80% of undergraduates, a winding river, an interfaith chapel,
performance halls, the doors to the enormous medical center, a full athletic
center, and the stately Rush Rhees Library dome rising above a world-class
arboretum. Rochester’s campus inspires work, play, and photographers year-
round, through warm falls, white winters, and blossoming springs.
CAMPUS LIFE
The ‘River Campus’ is the intimate and lively student college home within the multi-campus University.
Rochester has grown since 1840 as a corporate, tech, and college town whose
warm and diverse residents are never bored. The city’s hotspots include a fine art
museum, Kodak Hall, three professional sports venues, the National Museum
of Play, and the George Eastman House, a photography museum that attracts
scholars from all over the world. Rochester fostered the motion picture film
industry, abolition, and the women’s rights movement. Rochester’s economy is
dynamic with thousands of specialized, profitable firms in fields like optics and
health equipment and technology. Residents have easy access to Lake Ontario
beaches, Erie Canal recreation, and a vast greenbelt of gardens, parks, and
summer festivals.
CIT Y OF ROCHESTER
Straddling the swift Genesee River and its six waterfalls, the City of Rochester is an urban setting with an easy suburban feel.
The University doesn’t merely teach skills; it teaches you how to teach yourself.
This University doesn’t look back at what’s been done; it looks forward to
what’s next. In fact, the Rochester motto is “Meliora,” Latin for “ever better.”
Rochester’s legacy of innovation ensures that students graduate not just as
specialists, but as forward thinkers and leaders in their field. Rochester’s future
is with its students, and your future could be with Rochester.
MELIORA
The University of Rochester is for students who are courageous enough to create their own education.
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