USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2008: Union College: Services & Facilities

Union College

807 Union Street
Schenectady, NY 12308

Basic services offered:: nonremedial tutoring, women's center, health service, other
Remedial learning services offered:: N/A
Counseling services offered:: career, personal, academic, psychological, religious

Career services include:: co-op education, on-campus job interviews, internships, resume assistance, alumni network, interest inventory, interview training, other

Within six months of graduation:: N/A
Within one year of graduation:: N/A
Within two years of graduation:: N/A
Firms that most frequently hire graduates:: AXA Equitable; AmeriCorps; Ayco Company; Cravath, Swaine, and Moore LLP; Eli Lilly; General Electric Company; Goldman Sachs; IBM; Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory; Lockheed Martin; Morgan Stanley; National Grid; New England Center for Children; Price Waterhouse Coopers; Raytheon; Roche Laboratories

School has a library on campus?: Yes
School is a member of library consortia?: Yes
Number of books, serial backfiles, and other material including government documents:: 594,245
Number of current serial subscriptions:: 4,244
Number of microforms:: 692,202
Number of audiovisual materials:: 11,286
Number of E-books:: 858
Additional library facilities:: Schaffer Library houses a periodicals reading room, faculty studies, and over 500 individual study spaces. It operates on the open stack plan, offers bibliographic instruction, interlibrary loan, online bibliographic retrieval services, electronic document delivery, and Internet workstations. Automated circulation of books and other library materials and the online catalog are available. Professional reference service is offered during most of the hours that the library is open.

Museums or special academic buildings on campus:: The Nott Memorial(which serves as an exhibition and discussion center), a theatre, a music building, horticultural garden, multimedia auditorium, high-tech classroom/lab building, superconducting nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, electron scanning microscope, tandem pelletron positive ion accelerator, x-ray diffraction equipment, remote-controlled telescope.

Students required to take a computer course?: No
Students required to lease/own a computer?: No
Number of computers available to all students:: 531
Internet access available to all students?: Yes
E-mail accounts available to all students?: Yes
Computers available for student use in:: computer center/labs, residence halls, library, student center

In the library (excluding computer labs):: 136
In classrooms:: 12
In computer labs:: 50
Elsewhere in the school/university:: 75
Does the school have a wireless network?: Yes
Areas where wireless network is available:: in some of the libraries (excluding computer labs); in all the libraries; in some classrooms; in all classrooms; in computer labs; in administrative/faculty offices and work areas; in some of the college-owned, operated, or affiliated housing; in all college-owned, operated, or affiliated housing
Total approximate number of simultaneous users that can be accommodated by the wireless network:: 2,000
Recommended computer operating system on campus:: Microsoft Windows
Percentage of college-owned, operated, or affiliated housing units wired for high-speed Internet access:: 100%
Student webpages permitted?: Yes
Is online registration for classes available?: Yes

Campus safety and security services offered:: 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc)

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