Independent guidebooks, national magazines, and leaders in all fields consistently recognize the strength of Colgate's academic program and faculty, the extraordinary beauty of the campus, and the value of a Colgate degree.
Read what people are saying about Colgate.
"Colgate University is a small school in New York that features big time academics in a small town setting."
-Environmental News Network (July 2009)
"In his first speech to Colgate University students and staff Tuesday, incoming President Jeffrey Herbst promised to collaborate with the community at large when making decisions as the leader of the 190-year-old institution. And his actions that day showed what he meant."
-Utica Observer-Dispatch (November 2009)
"Colgate University, a liberal arts school in upstate New York, is taking the concept of stress relief to a holistic-level. Earlier this week, the university's Center for Women's Studies set up a full-fledged 'stress-free zone' where approximately 100 students enjoyed Mediterranean cuisine, falafel, massages, and yoga and learned how to relax their breathing using a special biofeedback computer program."
-U.S. News & World Report (December 2009)
"Graduates of small selective liberal arts colleges do well, with median salaries competitive with major research universities."
-Al Lee, of PayScale, commenting on a salary study about the highest paid alumni (August 2008)
"The fifth-ranked and first non-Ivy school among top earners was Colgate University located in Hamilton, N.Y., where the highest-paid graduates earn $265,000."
-Forbes article about PayScale salary survey (July 2008)
"Can't decide between a university and a small liberal-arts college? Colgate has both, in an upstate New York setting that includes a lake and a golf course that Golf Digest rated as one of the top five collegiate courses in the United States. Naturally, the school has a Division I golf team. Despite a relatively small freshman class—about 750 students—Colgate offers an array of academic opportunities. Colgate is also the only college in the United States that offers students the chance to study for a semester for credit at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
- Newsweek, in naming Colgate one of the 25 "New Ivies" (2006)
“Students see that schools like Vassar, Lehigh, Colgate and Dickinson really care about the quality of undergraduate life,” a California guidance counselor quoted in Time magazine.
- An article titled “Who Needs Harvard?” in Time (August 2006)
“Colgate's ‘Career Development in the New Economy’ program brings in alumni business executives to offer advice and engage in networking; students meet for up to two hours a week, for six to eight weeks during the semester. In its Gateway Program, Colgate will soon offer noncredit courses in fields like law, journalism and marketing and finance.”
- The New York Times Magazine (Dec. 12, 2004)
“Rebecca Chopp of Colgate … has reaffirmed Colgate’s commitment to civic and ethical education as essential.”
- Inside Higher Ed (May 11, 2005)
“Among U.S. News and World Report's top 20 liberal arts colleges in the country, Colgate has an enrollment of 2,750 undergraduates. It is one of the smallest colleges playing a Division I-AA [sports] schedule. Colgate's overall graduation rate is 89%, one of the nation's highest. The graduation rate of its athletes is 86%, fourth highest in I-AA.”
- The Los Angeles Times (2003)
"Colgate is a cozy college with a much larger view of the world. 'Personal attention can be found wherever you look for it,' raves one student. Committed to undergraduate education, the college offers ample opportunity to have diverse and intense academic experiences, either on campus or in a foreign land under the active guidance of dedicated faculty"
- The Fiske Guide to Colleges (2003)
A recent survey ranks Hamilton, N.Y. as the 212th best sports "city" in the nation! Hamilton ranks ahead of Daytona Beach, New Haven, Ithaca, Rochester, and numerous others.
- The Sporting News