College in Cayuga County, New York State

Wells College:
Wells College, located in the village of Aurora, in the heart of the finger lakes region of New York, is a private liberal arts college offering Bachelor Degree and Pre-professional programs. Wells College has an integrative liberal arts curriculum designed to prepare students for the leadership roles they will assume in all areas of life in the 21st century. The academic program includes a core curriculum and majors that integrate related disciplines. All majors contain cross-disciplinary elements and explore some of the most exciting areas of current research. As a part of the in-depth study of the major, students are introduced to the ways in which different areas of human inquiry are related.

Wells College is fully accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and School (MSCHE).

Members of the Cayuga Nation who inhabited what is now the Village of Aurora named their settlement Deawendote, or "place of constant dawn," because the eastern ridge above the Village prolongs the dawn. The Village was first settled by Euro-Americans in the 1790s, some of them veterans of the American Revolution. In the beginning of the 19th century, due to the reliance on transportation by water, Aurora was a bustling port town. There was lively steamboat traffic on Cayuga Lake, the longest of the Finger Lakes, and later a railroad line ran through the village.