Notable programs
Bachelor of Music — Eastman School of Music
Top-two globally ranked conservatory programme with weekly one-on-one studio teaching for all four years, 100-plus annual performance opportunities, and faculty including Renee Fleming-calibre artists. Operates from a separate downtown campus with dedicated dormitories, concert halls, and a placement rate above 90 percent into orchestras, conservatories, and graduate programmes.
BS Optical Engineering — Institute of Optics
The only American university programme offering a full undergraduate degree in optical engineering. Faculty publish in Nature Photonics and partner with ASML, Zeiss, Lawrence Livermore, NASA, and Meta. Entry-level industry salaries routinely exceed USD 95,000 and the 2024 launch of the MS Optics and Photonics programme deepens graduate research capacity.
BBA Simon Business School
Undergraduate business programme attached to a top-30 globally ranked MBA school strongly known for quantitative finance and analytical decision-making. Smaller and less recruited than Wharton or Stern at the undergraduate level, but Simon's MBA recruiting pipelines into Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and Citadel benefit advanced undergraduates.
MD Medicine — University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Affiliated with URMC and Strong Memorial Hospital, one of upstate New York's largest clinical and biomedical research centres. Pioneered the biopsychosocial model of medical education and maintains substantial NIH research funding across cardiology, oncology, and neuroscience.
BS Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Genuinely top-twenty globally ranked programme with strong research output in computational neuroscience, language acquisition, and visual cognition. Undergraduate research access begins sophomore year, and faculty publications appear regularly in Nature Neuroscience and Cognition.