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Coordinates: 41°30′15″N 81°36′30″W / 41.50416°N 81.60845°W / 41.50416; -81.60845

Case Western Reserve University (also known as Case) is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was created in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1881 by philanthropist Leonard Case Jr.) and Western Reserve University (founded in 1826 in the area that was once the Connecticut Western Reserve).

Case Western Reserve is the largest independent research university in the state of Ohio. As of 2008–2009, the university had 4,356 undergraduates and 5,458 graduate and professional students. In U.S. News & World Report's 2008 rankings, Case Western Reserve's undergraduate program ranked 41st among national universities. Also, the university ranks No. 12 among private universities receiving the most federal research funding.

The university is approximately five miles (8 km) east of downtown Cleveland in University Circle, a 550-acre (220 ha) area containing numerous educational, medical and cultural institutions. Case Western Reserve has a number of programs taught in conjunction with nearby institutions, including the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Cleveland Play House. For transportation, in addition to the Cleveland RTA, which is made available to students through a mandatory $25 per semester fee, Case Western Reserve has its own fleet of shuttle buses which are better known as "greenies".

Case Western Reserve was the site of the famous Michelson-Morley interferometer experiment, conducted in 1887 by A. A. Michelson of Case School of Applied Science and E. W. Morley of Western Reserve University. This experiment proved the non-existence of the luminiferous ether and gave circumstantial evidence to substantiate Einstein's Theory of Relativity.