Castleton State College is a public liberal arts college located at Castleton in the U.S. state of Vermont. Castleton has an enrollment of 2000 students and offers more than 30 undergraduate programs as well as master’s degrees in education.
Castleton State College was founded in 1787 with a charter from the Vermont General Assembly. It is the oldest college in Vermont, the fifth oldest college in New England – after Harvard College (1636), Yale ...
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Castleton State College is a public liberal arts college located at Castleton in the U.S. state of Vermont. Castleton has an enrollment of 2000 students and offers more than 30 undergraduate programs as well as master’s degrees in education.
Castleton State College was founded in 1787 with a charter from the Vermont General Assembly. It is the oldest college in Vermont, the fifth oldest college in New England – after Harvard College (1636), Yale University (1701), Brown University (1764), and Dartmouth College (1769) – and the eighteenth oldest college in the United States.
Castleton was founded as the Rutland Country Grammar School, teaching Greek and Latin and helping to fulfill the Vermont Constitution's requirement of universal free education for Vermont's citizens. In 1867, the State Normal School was founded in Castleton (Normal school, a term based on the French école normale supérieure, is a school to educate teachers). For 30 years the Normal School was privately owned by...
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