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College of Saint Elizabeth

College of Saint Elizabeth

Founded in 1899 by the Sisters of Charity; incorporated in 1900. This is the oldest college for women in New Jersey and one of the first Catholic colleges in the United States to award degrees to women. And it is ccredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education since 1921. The mission of the College of Saint Elizabeth is to be a community of learning in the Catholic liberal arts tr…

College of Staten Island

College of Staten Island

CSI was founded in 1976 through the union of two existing colleges—Staten Island Community College and Richmond College. Staten Island Community College, the first community college in the University, opened in 1955. Richmond College, an upper-division college that offered undergraduate and graduate degrees to students who had successfully completed the first two years of college study elsewhere, …

College of the Arts and Sciences - The Ohio State University

College of the Arts and Sciences - The Ohio State University

An arts and sciences education makes us think. It lets us do. The breadth of opportunities it yields is matched only by the depth of human experience it embraces. The Colleges of the Arts and Sciences make up the academic core of the university. We are five colleges, 41 departments, and more than 1,000 faculty. We are the primary home to Ohio State's undergraduate interdisciplinary majors and…

College of William and Mary

College of William and Mary

Chartered on February 8, 1693, by King William III and Queen Mary II as the second college in the American colonies. Severed formal ties with Britain in 1776. Became state-supported in 1906 and coeducational in 1918. Achieved modern university status in 1967. Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's premier academic honor society, and the honor code system of conduct were founded at William and Mary. …

Colorado College

Colorado College

Colorado College was established as a coeducational institution in 1874, two years before Colorado became a state. In 1871, General William Jackson Palmer, founder of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, laid out the city of Colorado Springs along his new line from Denver. Envisioning a model city, he reserved land and contributed funds for a college, which was to open May 6, 1874. At Colorado C…

Columbia Basin College

Columbia Basin College

Columbia Basin College has served Benton and Franklin counties for half a century. As a public institution, CBC continually expands and renovates programs and structures to meet the community’s needs. The enrollment of the college has grown from 299 students in 1955 to more than 7,000 students per quarter today. Still, CBC maintains small class sizes averaging between 22-50 students per class an…

Columbia College of Missouri

Columbia College of Missouri

Founded in 1851. Columbia College has been helping students advance their lives through higher education for more than 150 years. They are a private, not-for-profit, coeducational liberal arts and sciences college that takes pride in their small classes, experienced faculty and quality educational programs. The college was founded as Christian Female College, making it the first women's col…

Columbia College-Salt Lake City

Columbia College-Salt Lake City

Columbia College is a private, coeducational liberal arts and sciences college offering associate and bachelor's degrees on campus and online. Established in 1975 at Fort Douglas Army Education Center, Columbia College-Salt Lake City originally served the education needs of military personnel at Fort Douglas and the Army National Guard Units in the area. It moved to its present location in …

Columbia Union College

Columbia Union College

Columbia Union Colleges is a small private college near the nation’s capital with deeply-felt Christian roots. As a result, the college displays excellence in terms of its own distinctiveness, with an emphasis on classes that are smaller and taught by professors who bring not only the kind of technical capability you would expect at a college at the nation’s capital, but also a strong sense of mis…

Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduate…