Colgate University

Colgate’s mission is to provide a demanding- expansive educational experience to a select group of diverse- talented- intellectually sophisticated students who are capable of challenging themselves- their peers- and their teachers in a setting that brings together living and learning. The purpose of the university is to develop wise- thoughtful- critical thinkers and perceptive leaders by encouraging young men and women to fulfill their potential through residence in a community that values all forms of intellectual rigor and respects the complexity of human understanding.