<p>URoch has an outstanding physics program–particularly in optics–with up-to-date/new research facilities. (Well, except in nuclear physics…it’s not an area they deal much with.) DH worked in optics and optical materials for a period of his career and worked with numerous UR [PhD] grads.</p>
<p>Also URoch as a adjacent med school–literally right across the street from the physics/engineering classrooms. (Disclosure: D2 is a 2012 UR grad. I’ll try to answer some of your questions via PM.)</p>
<p>UMich also has an excellent undergrad physics program and there’s also an adjacent med school. The problem with UMich is that OOS students do not get good FA.</p>
<p>Don’t know much specifically about the physics programs at the other schools you’ve mentioned.</p>