Case Western Reserve University (also known as
Case Western Reserve,
Case Western,
Case, and
CWRU) is a private research university in
Cleveland,
Ohio. The university was created in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1881 by
Leonard Case Jr.) and Western Reserve University (founded in 1826 in the area that was once the
Connecticut Western Reserve).
TIME magazine described the merger as the creation of "Cleveland's Big-Leaguer" university.