About Wells College

Wells College is a private advocate arts hypothetical in Aurora, New York. The moot has cross-enrollment subsequently Cornell University and Ithaca College.

Wells College is located in the Finger Lakes region of New York. It is practically an hour from Syracuse and Rochester and a half-hour determination from both Ithaca and Auburn. It is within the Aurora Village–Wells College Historic District, listed upon the National Register of Historic Places.

The scholarly has an average student body of 450, with a student to capacity ratio of 9:1. It has five habitat halls and seven academic buildings.

Aurora, or Aurora-on-Cayuga, is a village and school town in the town of Ledyard, Cayuga County, New York, United States, on the shore of Cayuga Lake. The village had a population of 724 at the 2010 census.

Wells College, an institution of far along education for women founded by Henry Wells in 1868, is located in Aurora. It became coeducational in 2005, and since next enrollment has risen.

In 1980, its Aurora Village-Wells College Historic District, with more than 50 contributing properties, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. From 2001 to 2007, redevelopment of historic properties in the village by speculator Pleasant Rowland and the Aurora Foundation earned compliments, as skillfully as provoking citizen concern, a engagement joined by allow in and national preservation organizations, and national media attention.