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Was founded in 1794 in Knoxville. The college was open to " students of denominations " . Colleges first tuition was $8 a session. -
Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson. The University has a highly sufficient athletic program and art program. -
In 1820 the University was established. To this day it offers a wide curriculum of studies , is also known as the state's oldest University. -
For over two centuries, Amherst has been educating a talented, diverse student body. Amherst’s historical “firsts” include the world’s first intercollegiate baseball game, and the country’s first undergraduate neuroscience program and first collegiate athletics program. -
The University was first founded as the medical college of Louisiana in 1834 to serve the rapidly expanding city of New Orleans. -
The University is Mississippi's oldest public university and is the state's largest by enrollment.During the Civil War, the university operated as a Confederate hospital. -
was officially established in 1845 , Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the first educational institutions west of the Mississippi River in the United States. -
was founded in 1851, the University temporarily closed during the civil war.The Twin Cities campus is the oldest and largest in the University of Minnesota system and has the ninth-largest main campus student body in the United States. -
The University founded in 1856, the Maryland Agricultural College was established on ancestral land of the Piscataway tribe, which it purchased from a slave holding farmer and agricultural education advocate, and three years later opened with 34 students. -
Louisiana State University began as a small all-male military school near Pineville, Louisiana.The University had its origins in certain land grants from the U.S. Government in 1806, 1811, and 1827.