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Universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
- University of Texas at AustinOn the 15th of September 1883, the University of Texas officially opened its doors to students on College Hill in Austin.
- Wake Forest UniversityWake Forest University opened its doors on the 3rd of February 1834, not as the research institution it is today, but as the Wake Forest Manual Labor…
- Auburn UniversityThe Alabama Legislature chartered the institution as East Alabama Male College on the 1st of February 1856. This private liberal arts college operated under…
- University of North Carolina at GreensboroThe year 1891 marked a legislative decision in North Carolina to create a new institution dedicated solely to educating women.
- University of KentuckyJohn Bryan Bowman stood before the Kentucky General Assembly in 1865 to propose a new institution. He called it the Agricultural and Mechanical College of…
- University of TennesseeOn the 10th of September 1794, two years before Tennessee became a state, Blount College opened its doors in Knoxville. Governor William Blount lent his name…
- Coastal Carolina UniversityCoastal Carolina University opened its first building in 1963, the year John F. Kennedy was assassinated and the Beatles released their debut album.
- Texas Christian UniversityAddison and Randolph Clark returned from the Civil War in 1869 to establish a children's preparatory school in Fort Worth.
- University of North TexasThe University of North Texas sits in Denton, a city of roughly 170,000 people in the northern reaches of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
- University of South CarolinaOn the 19th of December 1801, the South Carolina General Assembly passed a legislative charter creating South Carolina College.
- Virginia Military InstituteThe Virginia Military Institute opened its doors on the 11th of November 1839. This date marks the formal separation from Washington College and the…
- Rice UniversityRice University began with a murder. On the morning of the 23rd of September 1900, an 84-year-old Massachusetts businessman named William Marsh Rice was…
- Florida Atlantic UniversityOn the 15th of July 1961, the Florida state legislature passed an act authorizing a new university in Boca Raton. This decision came to meet the growing…
- Mercer UniversityOn the 14th of January 1833, thirty-nine boys gathered in Penfield, Georgia to open the Mercer Institute. Billington McCarter Sanders served as the first…
- University of South FloridaIn 1956, the Florida Legislature approved the creation of a new state university on land that was once a 5,000-acre temple orange grove and later became the…
- Northern Virginia Community CollegeNorthern Virginia Community College opened its doors in the fall of 1965 with 761 students in a single building in Bailey's Crossroads.
- Georgia State UniversityIn 1913, the Georgia School of Technology's Evening School of Commerce opened its doors to night students in Atlanta. This small beginning served working…