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Colgate University
Colgate University was founded in 1819 by 13 men with 13 dollars and 13 prayers, according to the school's own founding lore, a detail that's given rise to the number 13 as a recurring, semi-official motif across campus traditions ever since. The university's small size, around 3,000 undergraduates, and its rural upstate New York setting in the village of Hamilton let it maintain close faculty-student relationships and a tight-knit residential campus culture that's frequently cited as a defining strength relative to larger research universities. Colgate's endowment per student ranks among the highest of any liberal arts college in the country, a resource base tied in part to the Colgate family's soap and toothpaste fortune, funding financial aid and campus facilities well beyond what a school of its size might otherwise support. The university's strong outcomes in finance and consulting recruiting, driven by an unusually well-connected and career-active alumni network for a liberal arts college, have made Colgate a consistent draw for students seeking a small-college experience without sacrificing access to competitive post-graduation career paths.
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University of Rochester
The University of Rochester, founded in 1850, built much of its early research reputation on close ties to the region's optics and imaging industry — Eastman Kodak founder George Eastman was a major benefactor, and the university's Institute of Optics remains one of the top-ranked optics programs in the world. The Eastman School of Music, part of the university and also funded by George Eastman, is consistently ranked among the best conservatories in the country, giving Rochester an unusual academic breadth that spans hard sciences, medicine, and elite performing arts training within a single university. Rochester's medical center and School of Medicine and Dentistry are major regional research and clinical institutions, and the university's strength in optics, laser physics, and biomedical engineering reflects a research focus that grew directly out of the industrial base — Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb — that once anchored the city's economy. The university's relatively flexible curriculum, which drops most distribution requirements in favor of student-chosen "clusters" of courses across different disciplines, is frequently cited as one of the more distinctive undergraduate academic structures among major American research universities.
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