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Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology.

Case Western Reserve University comprises eight schools that offer more than 100 undergraduate programs and about 160 graduate and professional options across fields in STEM, medicine, arts, and the humanities. In 2023, the university enrolled 12,266 students (6,186 undergraduate plus 6,080 graduate and professional) from all 50 states and 102 countries and employed more than 1,110 full-time faculty members. The university's athletic teams, Case Western Reserve Spartans, play in NCAA Division III as a founding member of the University Athletic Association.

Case Western Reserve University is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation, in 2019 the university had research and development (R&D) expenditures of $439 million, ranking it 20th among private institutions and 58th in the nation.

Case alumni, scientists, and scholars have played significant roles in many scientific breakthroughs and discoveries including use of the first external defibrillator; the discovery of gravitational waves; the invention of the MRI; isolation of the poliovirus; the Michelson-Morley experiment, which disproved the existence of "luminiferous aether" and confirmed that light did not need a medium of travel, was conducted in the basement of a Western Reserve University dormitory in 1887, and Albert A. Michelson became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in science.

As of April 2024, 2 Surgeons General of the United States, 1 Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 5 Olympic medallists, 1 NASA astronaut, 3 billionaires, 69 appointees to the National Academies, and 17 Nobel laureates are numbered among Case Western Reserve University faculty or alumni, or one of its predecessors prior to federation. Provided by Wikipedia