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Our Best Area Colleges

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  University At Albany-The University at Albany is a co-educational public university in Albany New York which has well known nationally ranked programs in Criminal Justice, Information Technology and Public Administration. In addition to these programs, UAlbany's College of Nanotechnology Science and Engineering ranks number 1 in the world.
  
  UAlbany has over 100 undergraduate majors and over 120 graduate programs to choose from. It has a greatly diversified student body with students from over 100 nations in attendance. UAlbany is a large school population wise with 12,750 undergraduates, and over 5000 graduate students. However, in the days of rising college costs, it is a bargain at $18,000 for tuition and room and board.
  
  Union College-Union College in Schenectady, the first chartered college in New York State, is a private co-educational liberal arts college of about 2500 students. While Union is an expensive college, it is very possible to get a decent sized scholarship to attend. Union offers 40 majors and numerous minors. Each program at Union is supplemented with a strong liberal arts background including their Engineering programs.
  
  Union is different than most colleges in that instead of the traditional semester system, Union offers trimesters. Students take 3-4 classes (usually 3) per term for 10 weeks at a time, leaving them time for sports and other extracurricular activities. While students at Union finish later in the school year than most other colleges, they also have a long break between Thanksgiving and New Years.
  
  Union also has a Minerva program where students are assigned to a Minerva house as freshmen. This house is a meeting place for functions and can also be living quarters. The small size of Union makes its faculty highly accessible and students and faculty alike work together to help the surrounding city area and give back to the community.
  
  RPI-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI as it is often called, is a private co-educational college in Troy. RPI is one of the oldest Engineering schools in the country. RPI is a mid-sized college with about 5200 undergraduate students and offers degrees in many engineering fields, as well as in architecture, business and the social sciences.
  
  RPI has one of the few programs in the country which features a combined Biology and MD program of seven years. This is in collaboration with nearby Albany Medical College. With the overlapping of many fields, RPI offers many interdisciplinary programs including ones in Design, Innovation and Society and Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology.
  
  St. Rose-The College of St Rose in Albany New York is a private co-educational liberal arts college known for its highly rated teacher education programs.
  
  The college has 60 undergraduate and 43 graduate programs and approximately 5000 total students. St. Rose focuses on a strong academic program combined with easy access to internships and sports. St. Rose is also very generous with their scholarships for deserving students.