Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Classification of Institutions of Higher Education established by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the sole Baccalaureate College (in the nation) that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and sciences but also supports and funds graduate research in many academic disciplines and grants PhD and Master's degrees primarily in the sciences, mathematics, and computer science.