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New York University
New York University, founded in 1831, has grown from a relatively modest city university into one of the largest and most internationally recognized private research universities in the country, with a Washington Square campus that's fully integrated into Greenwich Village rather than set apart behind gates or a traditional quad. NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Stern School of Business have each built reputations as among the best in their fields nationally, drawing on the university's Manhattan location to place students directly into the city's entertainment, finance, and media industries during their studies rather than only after graduation. The university's global network of degree-granting campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, alongside more than a dozen study-away sites around the world, gives NYU one of the most extensive international footprints of any American university, letting students complete substantial portions of their degree at fully NYU-operated campuses overseas. NYU's rapid rise in national rankings and application volume over the past several decades — from a solid regional university to one of the most heavily applied-to schools in the country — is frequently cited as one of the more dramatic institutional transformations in modern American higher education.
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Vassar College
Vassar College was founded in 1861 by brewer Matthew Vassar as one of the first degree-granting institutions of higher education for women in the United States, part of the group of elite women's colleges later known as the Seven Sisters, founded specifically to give women access to an academic rigor comparable to the all-male Ivy League. The college became fully coeducational in 1969, one of the first of the Seven Sisters to admit men, a shift that came after Vassar had turned down a proposed merger with Yale and instead chose to open its own doors to male students while retaining its historic campus and name. Vassar's academic reputation for rigor and its historically strong English, art history, and drama programs have produced a long list of prominent writers and artists, and the college's need-blind admission and full-need financial aid policies place it among the small number of liberal arts colleges that can financially support that level of accessibility. The campus itself, a designated National Historic Landmark District, includes a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed arboretum and a collection of architecturally significant academic buildings, giving Vassar one of the most distinctive physical campuses among the country's elite liberal arts colleges.
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