University of Rochester Snapshot
The buzz about the University of Rochester is music to some ears. The private, upstate New York institution is nationally recognized for its programs in medicine, engineering, and business, and its Eastman School of Music (founded by Eastman Kodak founder George Eastman) is one of the top music schools in the US. The university, which has an endowment of more than $1.3 billion, offers about more than 200 academic majors and about 30 master's and doctoral degree programs to more than 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The school has a 9:1 student-teacher ratio. Founded as a Baptist-sponsored institution in 1850, the university is nonsectarian today.
