Curated playlist
Universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
- Duke UniversityDuke University spent more than $1.5 billion on research in 2024. It began in 1838 as Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school in Randolph County, North Carolina. Today the private university in Durham holds an endowment of $11.9…
- University of Texas at AustinA Texas oil well in 1923 helped fund the University of Texas at Austin.
- Wake Forest UniversityWake Forest University began as a farm school where students worked half of every day.
- Auburn UniversityAuburn University's "War Eagle" cry may come from an eagle that died at a 1892 game.
- University of North Carolina at GreensboroThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro admitted only women until 1963.
- University of KentuckyThe University of Kentucky's exact shade of blue came from a necktie. It was held up at a 1891 football game.
- University of TennesseeThe University of Tennessee opened two years before Tennessee became a state. It began in 1794 as Blount College.
- Coastal Carolina UniversityCoastal Carolina University won baseball's national title hours before joining a new conference.
- Texas Christian UniversityAfter a 1910 fire in Waco, Fort Worth businessmen lured Texas Christian University home.
- University of North TexasThe University of North Texas was first in the world to offer a degree in jazz studies. It is based in Denton, Texas.
- University of South CarolinaThe University of South Carolina holds the largest collection of Ernest Hemingway material in the world. It also keeps the biggest collection of Robert Burns and Scottish literature outside Scotland. Those holdings sit on a campus of more…
- Virginia Military InstituteIn 1864, 247 cadets from Virginia Military Institute marched into battle. They had covered 80 miles overnight.
- Rice UniversityRice University began with the 1900 murder of its founder. William Marsh Rice died in his New York apartment.
- Florida Atlantic UniversityFlorida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, still carries the outline of a wartime airfield. Four runways from the 1940s are visible on the main campus, where they mostly hold parked cars. A public research university now surrounds…
- Mercer UniversityMercer University opened as Mercer Institute on the 14th of January 1833, a boys' preparatory school in the Georgia town of Penfield. Its first class numbered 39 students. Nearly two centuries later, it is the oldest private university in…
- Liberty UniversityLiberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, enrolled about 80,000 online students in 2020, alongside only about 15,000 on its residential campus. That imbalance helps make it one of the largest private non-profit universities in the United…
- University of South FloridaThe University of South Florida's first president once said it would have no sports teams.
- Northern Virginia Community CollegeNorthern Virginia Community College began in 1965 with 761 students in one building.
- Georgia State UniversityGeorgia State University began in 1913 as a night school. It now owns a former Major League Baseball stadium.