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Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University (also known as Case Western, Case, and CWRU "crew") is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The university was created in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1881 by philanthropist Leonard Case Jr.) and Western Reserve University (founded in 1826 in the area that was once the Connecticut Western Reserve). TIME magazine described the merger as the creation of "Cleveland's Big-Leaguer" university.

As of 2008-2009, the university had 4,356 undergraduates and 5,458 graduate and professional students. In U.S. News & World Report's 2010 rankings, Case Western Reserve's undergraduate program ranked 41st among national universities. The University is associated with 16 Nobel Laureates. Case Western is particularly well known for its medical school, its law school, its dental school, and its biomedical teaching and research capabilities. Case Western is a member of the Association of American Universities.

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The university is approximately five miles (8 km) east of downtown Cleveland in University Circle. It is contained within a 550-acre area containing numerous educational, medical and cultural institutions. Case Western Reserve has a number of programs taught in conjunction with nearby institutions, including the Cleveland Clinic, the University Hospitals of Cleveland, the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Cleveland Play House.

Case Western Reserve was the site of the famous Michelson-Morley interferometer experiment, conducted in 1887 by A. A. Michelson of Case School of Applied Science and E. W. Morley of Western Reserve University. This experiment proved the non-existence of the luminiferous ether and gave circumstantial evidence to substantiate Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Michelson became the first American to win a Nobel Prize in science.

97% of enrolled students received financial aid, with an average award of $34,318.

67 percent of admitted students were in the top 10 percent of their high school class, 82 percent were in the top 20 percent and 92 percent were in the top 30 percent. The SAT scores of the middle 50th percentile of admitted students were 610-700 in critical reading, 650-750 in math, and 600-690 in writing. On the ACT, the middle 50% of scores was 28-32.

The most popular intended majors among the class of 2011 were engineering/computer science with 35 percent, followed by science/mathematics and pre-med/pre-dental medicine/pre-law with 18 percent and 15 percent respectively. Only 7 percent were undecided.

The class of 2013 had 35 percent of students from Ohio, 56 percent from other states and 9% from outside of the United States-representing a total of 50 states and 82 countries.

Nearly one-third of the campus undergraduates are in a fraternity or sorority. There are seven sororities and 15 fraternities currently on campus. Greek organizations are governed by an Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council.

Case Western Reserve University has been a member of the University Athletic Association (UAA) since the early 1990s. The conference participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division III. The university offers 10 men's sports and nine women's sports. Two of the teams attained unprecedented success in the fall of 2006, with the women's cross country team winning the Great Lakes regional championship for the first time, and the men's soccer team earning its first-ever NCAA tournament bid.

The founder of the popular centralized network of online communities and classified advertisements, Craigslist, is a notable alumni of Case Western. Craig Newmark did his BS in '75 and his MS in '77.

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