University of Rochester — Attraction in City of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private research university in Rochester, New York, United States. It enrolls approximately 6,800 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students. It was founded in 1850 and moved into its current campus, next to the Genesee River in 1955. With approximately 30,000 full-time employees, the university is the largest private employer in Upstate New York and the 7th largest in all of New York State.

Rochester offers 160 undergraduate and 30 graduate programs across seven schools spread throughout five campuses. The College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is the largest school, which includes the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and houses some of the college's departments and divisions. The Institute of Optics was founded in 1929 and is regarded among the premier optics programs in the world. The Departments of Political Science and Economics have influenced positivist social science since the 1960s. The Rossell Hope Robbins Library serves as the university's resource for Old and Middle English texts and expertise. The school is noted for its Rochester curriculum, which has only required one course and requires a breadth of study across fields. The Eastman School of Music is highly rated and considered one of the best programs in the world.

The university is also home to Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics, a national laboratory supported by the US Department of Energy that is the largest university-based US Department of Energy program in the nation. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and is a member of the Association of American Universities, which emphasizes academic research.

Rochester alumni, faculty, and affiliates include recipients of 13 Nobel Prizes, 9 National Medals of Science, 13 Pulitzer Prizes, 45 Grammy Awards, and 20 Guggenheim Fellowships.

The University of Rochester traces its origins to The First Baptist Church of Hamilton (New York), which was founded in 1796. The church established the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York, later renamed the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, in 1817. This institution gave birth to both Madison University and the University of Rochester. Its function was to train clergy in the Baptist tradition. When it aspired to grant higher degrees, it created a collegiate division separate from the theological division.

The collegiate division was granted a charter by the State of New York in 1846, after which its name was changed to Madison University. John Wilder and the Baptist Education Society urged that the new university be moved to Rochester, New York. However, legal action prevented the move. In response, dissenting faculty, students, and trustees defected and departed for Rochester, where they sought a new charter for a new university. Madison University was eventually renamed...

Do not go here if you are a transfer student. They will make you live off campus and do nothing to introduce you to the college. The area is not safe, the options are expensive, old, run-down apartments or shared housing in an unsafe neighborhood. The school takes in more students than they can hold. The professors are generally nice people, but a great majority of them are TERRIBLE at teaching. The grades in the Psych classes (my major) are determined by two or three exams alone, and the exams don't test understanding, merely the student's ability to memorize information. A lot of them rely on TA's to grade, and some of them to teach, which makes it very impersonal. A lot of the classes are 100-300 students and a lot of the students don't even care enough to come to class! There are some good professors and grad students who actually care about the students understanding, but they are hard to find. Once you find them, you'd want to take all of their classes, but you can't because chances are you are in one of the two classes they teach and the other class you already took with a different professor. I've heard awful things about the professors in other departments as well, especially the chemistry and biology departments. The English department (with the exception of freshmen writing classes) seems to be pretty good, though. Also, the food is terrible and they make the students living on campus to have meal plans much larger than they are able to use. There is nowhere you can go to study outside of your dorm room alone because all public study areas are packed at all hours of the day. The school doesn't seem to care much about their students and the students (most of whom came from private high schools with amazing opportunities kids who went to public school could only dream about) seem to be interested in drinking more than anything else. The only students who try are those planning on going into grad school. There have also been an insane amount of student deaths and muggings at this school. Don't go here;...

These people have personal issues that have no place in the medical society of the world and of space which it's going to be hard for them ever to make it there.This University should have been closed a long time ago but that doesn't mean that they can't be done now their regime of terror should have been ended long ago but that doesn't mean it can't be done now if I could give them a zero the professors that is the bureaucrats of you are the students are pretty much great unfortunately the professors and the rest of them are jealous and envious and it really puts a damper on education in the area and it's caused many problems too many families and many patients and it's a scourge to medicine with the professors do at this college it should have been closed along with the Eastman dental so I wouldn't extend them any more credit for renovations their credit worthiness is not good to have a very bad...