University of Rochester
The University of Rochester U of R, UR, or U of Rochester is the private research university in Rochester, New York. a university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral together with professional degrees.
The University of Rochester enrolls about 6,800 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students. Its 158 buildings chain over 200 academic majors. According to the National Science Foundation, Rochester spent more than $397 million on research and developing in 2020, ranking it 66th in the nation. With approximately 28,000 full time employees, the university is the largest private employer in Upstate New York and the 7th largest in all of New York State.
The Eastman Kodak and Bausch and Lomb as the number one educational script in the US devoted exclusively to optics, awards approximately half of all optics degrees nationwide, and is widely regarded as the premier optics code in the nation, and among the best in the world. The Departments of Political Science and Economics score made a significant and consistent affect on positivist social science since the 1960s, and historically style in the top 5 in their fields. The Department of Chemistry is returned for its contributions to synthetic organic chemistry, including the number one lab-based synthesis of morphine. The Rossell Hope Robbins library serves as the university's resource for Old and Middle English texts and expertise. The university is also domestic to Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics, a national laboratory supported by the US Department of Energy.
The University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music ranks first among undergraduate music schools in the U.S. The Sibley Music Library at Eastman is the largest academic music the treasure of cognition in North America and holds the third largest collection in the United States.
In its history, university alumni and faculty hit earned 13 Nobel Prizes, 13 Pulitzer Prizes, 45 Grammy Awards, 20 Guggenheim Fellowships, 9 National Medals of Science, 4 National Medals of Technology, 3 National Medals of Arts, and 3 National Humanities Medals, while others have been elected to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.