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Oberlin College
Oberlin College, founded in 1833, was the first coeducational college in the United States to regularly admit women alongside men, and it became one of the first American colleges to admit Black students as well, a dual founding commitment to inclusion that predated the Civil War by decades and shaped Oberlin's institutional identity ever since. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and now integrated with the college, is one of the oldest continuously operating music conservatories in the country and consistently ranks among the best undergraduate music programs, letting students pursue a full liberal arts degree alongside rigorous conservatory-level musical training. Oberlin's campus was a significant stop on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War, and the town's and college's shared abolitionist history is preserved and actively taught as part of the institution's identity, distinguishing it from peer liberal arts colleges founded with less explicit social-reform missions. The college's combination of rigorous liberal arts academics, a top-tier attached conservatory, and a long history of student activism has made Oberlin a consistent draw for students seeking a politically engaged, artistically rich small-college environment, and its dual-degree program remains one of the only ways to combine elite liberal arts study with conservatory-level music training at a single institution.
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Miami University
Miami University, founded in 1809 in Oxford, Ohio, is often called a "Public Ivy," a term for public universities offering an academic experience comparable to the Ivy League, and Miami's undergraduate-focused teaching model, with class sizes closer to a private liberal arts college than a typical large state university, is central to that reputation. The university's Farmer School of Business is consistently ranked among the top undergraduate business programs at any public university in the country, and Miami's education program has one of the longest and most respected histories in American teacher training, dating back to the university's origins as a regional teaching institution. Miami's classical, red-brick Georgian campus architecture, largely uniform across the university's core academic buildings, has made it one of the most frequently cited "beautiful campus" honorees among American universities, a distinct aesthetic identity relative to the more architecturally varied campuses of larger state flagships. The university's deliberate emphasis on small class sizes and close faculty engagement, unusual for a public university of its size, has made Miami a consistent choice for students seeking a private-college-like undergraduate experience without the corresponding private-university tuition, particularly for in-state Ohio residents.
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