Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University, private, coeducational institution in Cleveland, Ohio. The university comprises two formerly separate institutions, Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology. The latter was founded in Cleveland in 1880 as the Case School of Applied Sciences, and named for its endower Leonard Case. The name Case Institute of Technology was adopted in 1947. Western Reserve University was founded in 1826 in Hudson, Ohio, as Western Reserve College. In 1882 it became Western Reserve University and was moved to Cleveland. Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University were merged in July 1967 to become Case Western Reserve University.

The university confers bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and professional degrees in a broad range of fields. The university’s principal academic divisions are the College of Arts and Sciences; the Case School of Engineering; the School of Graduate Studies; and professional schools of dentistry, law, management, medicine, nursing, and social work. The university also offers programs of study with the , the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University Hospitals of Cleveland, and other institutions.

The university libraries include several noted collections, among them the Scherer collection in Germanic literature and philology, and the Bohn housing and planning library. The university has a computer and communications network, known as CWRUnet, and offers a free electronic mail network information resource, known as Cleveland Free-Net, to users on campus or in the community.