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The University of Connecticut (UConn) was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. It's grown a lot since then: More than 28,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students receive instruction through UConn's six campuses and 14 colleges and schools, including schools of law and social work and a graduate business learning center in Hartford, as well as schools of medicine and dental medicine and the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. UConn offers about 100 undergraduate majors, more than 15 graduate programs in some 90 fields of study, and five professional degree programs. It confers more than 6,500 degrees annually.

BOASTING WORLD-CLASS ACADEMICS, award-winning faculty and both new and enhanced campuses, today’s City University of New York is attracting students who win National Science Foundation fellowships and Rhodes Scholarships, keeping a nearly 170-year-old commitment to educational excellence and opportunity. Our mission dates to 1847 when founder Townsend Harris, an early champion of public education and a pioneering diplomat who was the first U.S. ambassador to Japan, called upon New York City to create a public academy of higher learning to “educate the whole people.” An inaugural class of 143 academically qualified young men was soon assembled. The fledgling school quickly grew in reputation and enrollment and, as a new century approached, plans were approved for an expansive neo-Gothic campus uptown that became the College of the City of New York. The Normal School, the first to offer free education to women, became Hunter College in 1914. Twenty years after the first students entered the academy, a second school for the education of teachers, the Female Normal and High School – later renamed Hunter College in honor of its founder, Thomas Hunter – offered the same higher education opportunities to women. Fueled by an immigration boom in the early 20th century, City College and Hunter expanded to include evening sessions in Brooklyn and Queens. In 1926, the state Legislature established a Board of Higher Education to oversee the growing municipal college system and expand public access in the city’s outer boroughs. Over the next decade, Brooklyn College and Queens College were founded and Hunter established a Bronx campus, which decades later would become Lehman College. Despite the city’s limited resources, demand for public higher education continued to grow during the Great Depression. The colleges created night divisions that charged affordable tuition while offering students the opportunity to work toward their degrees or raise their grades to the levels required to enter the colleges’ free baccalaureate programs. In the ensuing post- World War II years, another dramatic enrollment boom led to the creation of several community colleges, including one on Staten Island. In 1961, the state Legislature formally established The City University of New York, uniting what by then had become seven municipal colleges into a formally integrated system and authorizing the new University to offer doctoral programs. Today, the senior colleges have selective admission requirements. Community colleges continue to serve as portals to opportunity for applicants with a high school or GED diploma. Since 2000, billions of dollars have been invested to rebuild, enhance and expand the University’s 25 campuses. The Craig Newmark Graduate School Of Journalism At CUNY, CUNY School of Public Health, Macaulay Honors College and the innovative Guttman Community College are among the colleges and graduate schools recently established. This greatly expanded University, serving record enrollments, offers tuition-free education to seven in 10 full-time undergraduates thanks to federal, state and CUNY financial aid. In contrast to the crushing debt other students typically carry at many public and private institutions, 80 percent of our students who earn an undergraduate degree graduate with no student debt. The University’s 21st-century mission remains true to its founding principles of academic excellence, scholarship and opportunity for all. CUNY boasts 13 Nobel laureates and the tradition of high academic achievement continues as our students win prestigious scholarships. In recent years, the University has produced 70 Fulbright scholars, 70 National Science Foundation fellows, 10 Truman scholars and seven Rhodes scholars. With a flourishing reputation among students and educators alike, CUNY is defining value by providing the opportunity of a lifetime: a high-quality, competitive and remarkably affordable college education. It’s an education that delivers in the marketplace, producing job-ready graduates with respected academic credentials. It’s a 21st-century education, taught by top scholars on upgraded campuses that is transforming the student experience, bringing jobs to New York and stimulating economic development. That’s why more high-achieving students, and more students of all backgrounds and abilities, are choosing to study in vibrant New York City at The City University of New York.

San José State University (SJSU) is located on 154 acres in downtown San José, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Its seven colleges offer about 70 bachelor's and 65 master's degree programs in areas including art, business administration, psychology, nursing, accounting, and library science. The university says it is the oldest public institution of higher learning on the West Coast. It was founded in San Francisco in 1857 as a teachers' training school known as Minns' Evening Normal School; it later came under state control and moved to San José in 1871. SJSU became part of the California State University System in 1961. It has about 1,800 faculty members and an enrollment of some 30,000 students.

Jesuits are known for their devotion to education as well as their investment portfolio, both of which are evident to all who visit the University of San Francisco (USF), one of 28 Jesuit Catholic colleges and universities in the US. The main USF campus sits on 55 acres near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The school, which was formed in 1855 as St. Ignatius Academy, enrolls more than 8,700 students. It operates six schools and colleges, including the schools of business and management, education, law, and nursing, and the colleges of arts and sciences and professional studies. In addition to its main campus, the university operates five satellite sites in Northern and Southern California.

With its close proximity to New York City and annual sponsorship of some 500 cultural events, Hofstra University is a happening place. The private, nonsectarian four-year university has an annual enrollment of some 11,450 full- and part-time students. To encourage the success of its students, Hofstra maintains a low student-faculty ratio of 14 to 1. It offers more than 140 undergraduate program options and about 150 graduate program options in liberal arts and sciences; education, health, and human services; business; communications; and honors studies, and it has a School of Law and School of Medicine. Hofstra University was founded in 1935 by trustees of the estate of William and Kate Hofstra.

When you go by the moniker USA and the campus beauty queen wins the Miss USA title year after year (the Pi Kappa Phi Miss USA pageant, that is) you're standing on hallowed ground. In this case it's the ground of the University of South Alabama, situated on the upper Gulf Coast. The school's crown jewel is its College of Medicine and other facilities, including USA Medical Center, USA Knollwood Hospital, and USA Children's and Women's Hospital. USA also offers degrees in Health, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Nursing, Computer and Information Sciences, Continuing Education and Special Programs, and the Graduate School. More than 14,000 students call the USA home.

Getting into Vassar College takes more than a WASP heritage and preppy nickname. The highly selective school enrolls about 2,450 students each year, most of whom graduated in the top 20% of their high school class. It has a student-faculty ratio of 9-to-1 and a list of alumni that includes standouts in every area from business to philanthropy. Vassar has no "core curriculum" -- students may concentrate in a single discipline, a multidisciplinary program, or they may design an independent major. The only universal requirements for graduation are proficiency in a foreign language, a freshman composition class, and a quantitative class. Vassar was founded in 1861 as a women's school; it went coed in 1969.