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Need-blind educational institutions

  • Yale UniversityOn the 9th of October 1701, the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut passed An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School.
  • Cornell UniversityOn the 27th of April 1865, Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White signed a legislative act that created New York's land-grant institution.
  • Harvard UniversityThe Massachusetts General Court voted to establish New College in 1636. Nathaniel Eaton became the institution's first headmaster the following year.
  • Columbia UniversityOn the 31st of October 1754, King George II issued a royal charter establishing King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan.
  • Princeton UniversityIn 1746, the College of New Jersey received its charter from acting governor John Hamilton on October 22. This institution emerged from a split within the…
  • University of Notre DameOn the 26th of November 1842, eight Holy Cross brothers stepped off a train in Indiana to begin work on a new college. Edward Sorin led this group from…
  • University of Southern CaliforniaJudge Robert Maclay Widney stood before a small group of donors in 1880 and secured the land that would become the University of Southern California.
  • Stanford UniversityLeland Stanford Junior University opened its doors in 1891 on a former farm in Palo Alto, California. The institution was established by railroad magnate…
  • Dartmouth CollegeEleazar Wheelock stood before a small group of Mohegan and other Native American students in 1755 to open Moor's Indian Charity School.
  • University of ChicagoIn 1890, a new University of Chicago opened its doors in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Illinois. This institution emerged from the ashes of an earlier…
  • Brown UniversityIn 1764, three residents of Newport drafted a petition to the colony's General Assembly. Ezra Stiles, pastor of Newport's Second Congregational Church…
  • Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins died in 1873 leaving a $7 million bequest to establish a university and hospital in Baltimore. This donation was the largest philanthropic gift…
  • Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWilliam Barton Rogers signed the charter for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the 10th of April 1861. The new institution opened its doors two…
  • Vassar CollegeMatthew Vassar signed the charter for his new institution on the 18th of February 1861. The building opened its doors to students just months later under the…
  • Rice UniversityOn the morning of the 23rd of September 1900, an 84-year-old Massachusetts businessman named William Marsh Rice was found dead by his valet, Charles F. Jones.
  • California Institute of TechnologyOn the 23rd of September 1891, local businessman Amos G. Throop founded a preparatory and vocational school in present-day Old Pasadena on Fair Oaks Avenue…
  • Babson CollegeIn the fall of 1908, Roger W. Babson met Sidney Linnekin while working on a garage in Wellesley Hills. Linnekin impressed Babson with his diligence as a…