Morgan State University, formerly Centenary Biblical Institute (1867-1890), Morgan College (1890-1938) Morgan State College (1938-1975), is located in residential Baltimore, Maryland. Morgan is a historically black college and Maryland's designated public urban university. As Maryland's "public urban university," Morgan is committed to providing opportunity of higher education to all persons regardless of socio-economic status. Though it is a pub...
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Morgan State University, formerly Centenary Biblical Institute (1867-1890), Morgan College (1890-1938) Morgan State College (1938-1975), is located in residential Baltimore, Maryland. Morgan is a historically black college and Maryland's designated public urban university. As Maryland's "public urban university," Morgan is committed to providing opportunity of higher education to all persons regardless of socio-economic status. Though it is a public institution, Morgan is not a part of the University System of Maryland; the school opted out of becoming a part of the system.
Morgan was founded in 1867 as the Centenary Biblical Institute, a Methodist Episcopal seminary, to train young men in the ministry. It later broadened its mission to educate both men and women as teachers. The school was renamed Morgan College in 1890 in honor of the Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its Board of Trustees, who donated land to the college.[
In 1915 Andrew Carnegie gave the school a...
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