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Private schools, also known as independent schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than relying on public (state) funds. In the United...
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Bob Jones University
Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private, non-denominational Protestant fundamentalist university in Greenville, South Carolina. It is the largest private liberal arts university in South Carolina and has a reputation for being one of the most...
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- 1927
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Drexel University
Drexel University is a private coeducational university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist.
Drexel University was founded in 1891 as the Drexel...
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- 1891
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- Dragons
Grinnell College
Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, U.S. with a strong tradition of social activism. It was founded in 1846, when a group of pioneer New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College.
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Harvey Mudd College
Harvey Mudd College is a private residential liberal arts college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. It is one of the institutions of the contiguous Claremont Colleges.
Harvey Mudd shares university resources...
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- 1955
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Ithaca College
Ithaca College is a private college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. The college has a strong liberal arts core, but also offers several pre-professional...
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- 1892
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Occidental College
Occidental College is a small, private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or "Oxy" as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the...
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- 1887 ,
- Apr 20, 1887
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Reed College
Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a four-year residential college with a campus located in Portland's residential Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring...
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- 1908
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- Communism, Atheism, and Free Love
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Saint John Fisher College
St. John Fisher College is a private liberal arts college located in Pittsford, New York, an eastern suburb of Rochester. Fisher is ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the "Tier 1" Northern Master's Universities, while U.S News rates admissions...
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- 1948
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University of Tulsa
The University of Tulsa is a private university awarding bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is currently ranked 88th among doctoral degree granting universities in the nation by US News and World Report and is...
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- 1894
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- Wisdom, Faith, Service
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- Golden Hurricane
Williams College
Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Williams was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams as a men's college, located in the Berkshires in northwestern Massachusetts,...
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- 1793
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Hiram College
Hiram College (pronounced /ˈhaɪ.rəm/ HYE-rəm) is a private liberal arts college located in Hiram, Ohio. Founded by Amos Sutton Hayden of the Disciples of Christ Church in 1850, the institution has, since its first days, been nonsectarian and...
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- Mar 1, 1850
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Berea College
Berea College is a liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky (south of Lexington), founded in 1855. Current full-time enrollment is 1,514 students. Berea College is distinctive among post-secondary institutions for providing low-cost education...
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- 1855
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, The Art Institute of Chicago. Providing...
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- 1866
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Lehigh University
Lehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school and has grown to include four...
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- 1865
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- Mountain Hawks
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis is a nonsectarian, private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853 and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more...
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- Feb 22, 1853
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Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1821, it is the third oldest college in Massachusetts, and has been coeducational since 1975. Amherst is a member of the historic Little Three colleges,...
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- 1821
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- Let them give light to the world ,
- Terras irradient
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The university traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839, and was chartered with...
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- 1839
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- Boston University College of Fine Arts ,
- Boston University School of Law ,
- Boston University School of Medicine ,
- Boston University School of Management
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Xavier University
Xavier University- Ateneo de Cagayan is a private, Roman Catholic university run by the Society of Jesus in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines.
It was founded in 1933 as the Ateneo de Cagayan by an American Jesuit Missionary, Fr. James T.G. Hayes S.J., who...
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- 1933
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Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is classified as a very high research activity university and it ranked as 50th in the US among national universities...
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- 1886
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Marlboro College
Marlboro College is a small, coeducational, alternative liberal-arts college in Marlboro, Vermont, USA.
Marlboro College was founded in 1946 by Walter Hendricks for returning World War II veterans on Potash Hill in Marlboro, Vermont. The school's...
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- 1946
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Juniata College
Juniata College is a private liberal arts college located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. It is named after the Juniata River — one of the principal tributaries of the Susquehanna River. In 1876 it became the first college founded by the Church of the...
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- 1876
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Roanoke College
Roanoke College is an independent, private, coeducational, four-year liberal-arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The college is located in Salem, Virginia, a suburban independent city adjacent to Roanoke,...
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- 1842
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Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is a graduate business school in Boston, Massachusetts. The school offers a full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, as well as many executive education programs. The School owns Harvard Business School Publishing,...
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- 1908
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Rochester Institute of Technology
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private university, located in metropolitan Rochester, New York, within the town of Henrietta, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation.
The Institute as...
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- 1829
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- The making of a living and the living of a life
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Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The university is home to the nation's oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
In 1852,...
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- 1852
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- Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences ,
- Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences ,
- Tufts University School of Medicine ,
- Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
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- Jumbos
University of Miami
The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, Miami, or The U) is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 in the city of Coral Gables, Florida within Miami-Dade County. Miami's Miller School of Medicine and its teaching hospital...
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- Hurricanes
Chatham College
Chatham University is an American liberal arts women's college with coeducational graduate programs through the doctoral level, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Shadyside neighborhood. The campus population of approximately 2,200 includes...
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- Dec 11, 1869
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Milton Hershey School
The Milton Hershey School is a private philanthropic (pre-K through 12) boarding school in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Originally named the Hershey Industrial School, the institution was founded and funded by chocolate industrialist Milton Snavely...
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- Nov 15, 1909
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles (17.7 km) southwest of Philadelphia.
The...
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- 1867 ,
- 1864
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Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS) is an evangelical theological seminary based in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.
Gordon-Conwell was founded in 1969, with theologian Harold Ockenga as its first president. It has a doubly-Baptist theological...
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- 1969
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Ripon College
Ripon College is a liberal arts college in Ripon, Wisconsin, USA. It was founded in 1851, but its first class of students did not enroll until 1853. As of fall 2007, Ripon College's student body stood at around 1000.
Ripon's first class, four women,...
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- 1851
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Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the...
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- 1817
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University of Scranton
The University of Scranton is a private, co-educational Jesuit university, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the northeast region of the state. The school was founded in 1888 by Most Rev. William O'Hara, the first Bishop of Scranton, as St....
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- 1888
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Institut Le Rosey
Institut Le Rosey, established in 1880, is the oldest private boarding school in Switzerland and one of the most exclusive educational institutions in the world. More commonly known as Le Rosey or just Rosey, the school was founded by Paul-Émile...
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Walla Walla College
Walla Walla University, known as Walla Walla College prior to September 2007, is a college offering liberal arts, professional, and technical programs. It is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Walla Walla University (WWU) is located...
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- 1892
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Dickinson College
Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Originally established as a Grammar School in 1773, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, five days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it...
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- 1783
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Monmouth College
Monmouth College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college located in Monmouth, Illinois, United States.
Monmouth College was founded on April 18, 1853 by the Second Presbytery of Illinois, a frontier arm of the Associate Reformed...
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- Apr 18, 1853
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Stetson University
Stetson University is a private, co-educational, liberal arts university located in DeLand, Florida, USA. Founded in 1883, it is the oldest private institution of higher education in the state of Florida.
In 2009, the U.S. News and World Report's...
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- 1883
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- For God and Truth ,
- Pro Deo et Veritate
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Macalester College
Macalester College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian college. Its first class entered September 15, 1885. The college is located on...
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- 1874
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Haverford College
Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
The college was founded in 1833 by area members of the Orthodox Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of...
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- 1833
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- Non Doctior Sed Meliore Doctrina Imbutus
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Colby College
Colby College, founded in 1813, is an American private liberal arts college located on Mayflower Hill in Waterville, Maine.
Colby is the 12th oldest independent liberal arts college in the United States. Approximately 1,800 students from 62...
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- 1813
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Hampshire College
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, to be in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith...
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- 1965 ,
- 1970
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- School of Cognitive Science ,
- School of Interdisciplinary Arts ,
- School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies ,
- School of Social Science
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- Non Satis Scire (To Know Is Not Enough)
Simon's Rock College of Bard
Bard College at Simon's Rock, more commonly known as Simon's Rock and previously as Simon's Rock College of Bard (see below), is a small, residential, selective four-year liberal arts college located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The foremost...
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- 1964
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John Carroll University
John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded as Saint Ignatius College by the Society of Jesus. A member of the Association of Jesuit...
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- 1886
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Wellesley College
Wellesley College is a women's liberal arts college, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, that opened in 1875, founded by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline Fowle Durant. According to the 2009 U.S. News and World Report rankings, Wellesley College is...
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- 1875
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Babson College
Babson College is a private business school located in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Babson College was founded by Roger Babson on September 3, 1919, as the Babson Institute. It was renamed "Babson College" in 1969. Believing experience to be the best...
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- Sep 3, 1919
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Curry College
Curry College is a private liberal arts-based institution in Milton, Massachusetts that started as the School of Elocution in 1879.
The school was founded as the School of Elocution in 1879 on Boston's Commonwealth Avenue by Anna Baright, who...
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- 1879
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Colorado College
The Colorado College (familiarly known as CC) is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell. The college enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduates at its 90 acre (36 ha) campus, 70...
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- 1874
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- Scientia et Disciplina
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- tigers
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (also referred to as JBIMS or just Bajaj) is the Department of Management Studies of the University of Mumbai (Bombay) and is the third oldest business school in India. It is known for its financial...
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- 1965
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Pomona College
Pomona College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont, California. It has ranked in the top ten of liberal arts colleges nationally according to the U.S. News and World Report rankings since their inception. Founded in...
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- Oct 14, 1887
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Fisk University
Fisk University is an historically black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. The world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers started as a group of students who performed to earn enough money to save the school at a critical time of...
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- 1866
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Gonzaga University
Gonzaga University is a private Catholic Jesuit university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is...
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- 1887
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- Bulldogs
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College (boʊdɪn), founded in 1794, is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal New England town of Brunswick, Maine. The college enrolls approximately 1,700 students and has been coeducational since 1971. It offers 33 majors and...
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- Jun 24, 1794
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Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (often called simply Olin College) is a private undergraduate engineering college located in Needham, Massachusetts (near Boston), adjacent to the Babson College campus. Olin College is noted in the...
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- 1997
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Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter, Phillips Exeter or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school for grades 9–12 and postgraduates, located on 619 acres (2.51 km) in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, 50 miles (80 km) north of Boston....
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- 1781
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Seattle Pacific University
Seattle Pacific University (SPU) is a Christian university of the liberal arts, sciences and professions, located on the north slope of Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, Washington, USA. It was founded in 1891 by the Oregon and Washington Conference of...
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- 1891
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Carleton College
Carleton College is an independent non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. The College currently enrolls 1,958 undergraduate students, and employs 198 full-time faculty members. Robert A. Oden is the current...
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- Nov 14, 1866
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William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration
The University of Rochester William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration (formerly known as The Graduate School of Management) is the business school located on the University's River Campus in Rochester, NY. It was renamed after...
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- 1958
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Philadelphia University
Philadelphia University, founded in 1884, is a private university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia University's student body consists of about 3,500 individuals from all 50 states and over 30 countries. As an institution,...
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- 1884
