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Universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
- University of Texas at AustinThe University of Texas at Austin opened its doors on the 15th of September 1883, more than half a century after the first written promise of a public…
- 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 UniversityAuburn University opened its doors in 1859 with a student body of eighty and a faculty of ten. What started as a private Methodist liberal arts college in…
- 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 KentuckyThe University of Kentucky opened its doors in 1866 with 190 students and 10 professors, on a campus borrowed from the estate of Henry Clay.
- University of TennesseeThe University of Tennessee was founded on the 10th of September, 1794, two full years before Tennessee itself became the 16th state of the Union.
- 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 UniversityTexas Christian University sits on 302 acres of golden-bricked campus just four miles from downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Its buildings wear red-tile roofs, its…
- 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 InstituteVirginia Military Institute sits on 134 acres in Lexington, Virginia, and it has been asking something of its students from the very first day its gates…
- 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 FloridaThe University of South Florida sits on what was once the largest citrus grove in the world, a 5,000-acre stretch of temple oranges that gave the nearby city…
- 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 UniversityGeorgia State University began in 1913 as the Evening School of Commerce, a night program under the Georgia School of Technology.