Union College
About
Union College is a private liberal arts and engineering college at 807 Union Street in Schenectady, established in 1795 and home to about 1,900 undergraduates. Union combines classic liberal arts with engineering, and U.S. News ranks its engineering programs 21st among non-doctoral schools and its graduates 13th for early career earnings.
The campus, designed by French architect Joseph-Jacques Ramée in 1813, is one of the first planned college campuses in America and features the 16-sided Nott Memorial. Union offers more than 62 areas of study, exclusively undergraduate.
What to know
- The Nott Memorial is a National Historic Landmark.
- Union was the first college in the U.S. to offer engineering alongside liberal arts.
- The Ramée campus plan predates Jefferson’s University of Virginia.
- Union’s Division I hockey team won the 2014 NCAA championship.
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