Colgate University

About Colgate

Colgate is a very particular private human sciences foundation recognized by scholastic brilliance and interdisciplinary request.


Championing the Liberal Arts

With little classes, a solid accentuation on workforce understudy collaboration, and a private group esteeming all types of scholarly thoroughness, we help understudies get to be keen, basic masterminds and insightful pioneers.

This implies cultivating differing qualities of thought and activity by offering 54 majors and various minors established in a Liberal Arts Core Curriculum that has been perceived as a standout amongst the most rich in the nation. In the meantime, our understudies add to an energetic grounds culture that supplements and develops the learning made in our classrooms and labs.

Our Community

Understudies who go to Colgate drench themselves in a domain loaded with splendid personalities and awesome aspirations. Select a picture underneath to take in more about our understudies, staff, and graduated class.

Statement of purpose

Colgate's central goal is to give a requesting, far reaching instructive experience to a select gathering of differing, capable, and mentally modern understudies who are equipped for testing themselves, their associates, and their instructors in a setting that unites living and learning.


Past, Present, and Future

A very fruitful crusade that finished in 2012 raised $480 million, including $142 million for money related guide. Different case of battle effect: the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center, the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology, and Trudy Fitness Center.

These assets guarantee future strides toward more grounded exploration, more compelling utilization of innovation, and more prominent financial assorted qualities on grounds.

Be that as it may, we always remember our rich history or customs, similar to our long-lasting relationship with the No. 13 that depends on the narrative of our establishing in 1817 when 13 men met in the boondocks settlement of Hamilton with "13 dollars, 13 petitions, and 13 articles."

The state conceded us a contract in 1819 and after one year the school opened. In 1823, Baptists in New York City - soapmaker William Colgate among them - solidified their theological school with the Hamilton school to frame the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution. The Colgate family association was in this way settled.

The most seasoned expanding on our momentum grounds, West Hall, was manufactured four years after the fact in 1827. Understudies and workforce, cooperating, constructed the new structure from stone pulled from a quarry on grounds.

We changed our name in 1846 to Madison University and got to be Colgate in 1890, perceiving almost 70 years of ceaseless association by the Colgate family.

The enthusiasm for taking in, the craving to make and share new information, and the drive to have any kind of effect on the planet keep on permeating today's grounds. Presently, our understudies and employees are exploiting brilliant classrooms, best in class research centers, and the most recent advances to keep that Colgate soul of learning and sharing alive.