Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York, USA. The school was founded in 1819 as a Baptist seminary and later became non-denominational. It is named for the Colgate family who greatly contributed to the university's endowment in the 19th century. Colgate has 51 undergraduate concentrations that culminate in a Bachelor of Arts degree. The student body comes from 49 states and 34 countries. In its 2009 edition, U.S. News and World Report ranked Colgate as the 19th best liberal arts college in the country. Colgate ranked 29th in the 2009 edition of "America's Best Colleges" from Forbes.com. It is also listed as one of thirty Hidden Ivies and as one of Newsweek's "New Ivies". Colgate is located on a rural 515 acre (2.08 km²) campus in Central New York which was listed as the most beautiful in the country in the 2010 edition of the Princeton Review. Despite an undergraduate population of only 2,750, Colgate is a member of the Patriot League conference of the NCAA Division I. In 1817, the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York was founded by thirteen men (six clergymen and seven laymen).