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The Alabama Legislature chartered the institution as East Alabama Male College on the 1st of February 1856. This private liberal arts college operated under the guidance of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South starting in 1859.
Harold A. Franklin became the first African-American student to attend graduate school there in 1964 after suing the university for admission. He eventually received his master's degree in history from Auburn University in 2020.
Auburn University launched the first Bachelor of Wireless Engineering degree program in the United States following a twenty-five million dollar gift from alumnus Samuel L. Ginn in 2001. The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering maintains this tradition and consistently ranks among the nation's largest twenty engineering programs annually.
The Old Rotation represents the oldest continuous agricultural experiment in the Southeast dating back to 1896. David Bransby used switchgrass as biofuel in work that earned mention in the 2006 State of the Union Address.
In 2024, Auburn eliminated its Office of Inclusion and Diversity to comply with SB 129 signed by Governor Kay Ivey. This decision followed legal challenges regarding underrepresentation and occurred while African-Americans comprised seven point three five percent of undergraduates according to Fall 2023 data.