About The College of Saint Rose

The College of Saint Rose is a private teacher in Albany, New York. It was founded in 1920 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Initially a Roman Catholic bookish for women, the college became fully co-educational in 1969. In 1970, the college added laypersons to its board and became an independent learned sponsored by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet. The teacher is located in the Pine Hills neighborhood of Albany and is a Division II member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

Albany (/ˈɔːlbəni/ (listen) AWL-bə-nee) is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat and largest city of Albany County. Albany is located on the west bank of the Hudson River approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of its confluence taking into consideration the Mohawk River and approximately 135 miles (220 km) north of New York City.

Albany is known for its wealthy history, commerce, culture, architecture, and institutions of far along education. Albany constitutes the economic and cultural core of the Capital District of New York State, which comprises the Albany–Schenectady–Troy, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area, including the open cities and suburbs of Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs. With a 2013 Census-estimated population of 1.1 million the Capital District is the third-most populous metropolitan region in the state. As of the 2010 census, the population of Albany was 97,856.

The Place that superior became Albany was settled by Dutch colonists who, in 1614, built Fort Nassau for fur trading and, in 1624, built Fort Orange. In 1664, the English took on culmination of the Dutch settlements, renaming the city as Albany, in praise of the next Duke of Albany, the well ahead James II of England and James VII of Scotland. The city was officially chartered in 1686 below English rule. It became the capital of New York in 1797 bearing in mind formation of the United States. Albany is one of the oldest permanent settlements of the native British thirteen colonies, and is the longest until the end of time chartered city in the United States.

During the late 18th century and throughout most of the 19th, Albany was a center of trade and transportation. The city lies toward the north stop of the navigable Hudson River, was the original eastern terminus of the Erie Canal connecting to the Great Lakes, and was house to some of the dated railroad systems in the world. In the 1920s, a powerful embassy machine controlled by the Democratic Party arose in Albany. In the latter part of the 20th century, Albany experienced a terminate in its population due to urban sprawl and suburbanization; however, the New York State Legislature ascribed a $234 million building and renovation endeavor for the City in the 1990s that spurred renovation and building projects in this area the downtown area. In the forward 21st century, Albany has experienced mass in the high-technology industry, with good strides in the nanotechnology sector.