Randolph-Macon College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, near the capital city of Richmond. Founded in 1830, the school has an enrollment of over 1,200 students.
The college offers bachelor's degrees in 29 major disciplines in the liberal arts, including political science, business, psychology, biology, international studies, and computer science. It also offers nearly 40 minors, including education. ...
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Randolph-Macon College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, near the capital city of Richmond. Founded in 1830, the school has an enrollment of over 1,200 students.
The college offers bachelor's degrees in 29 major disciplines in the liberal arts, including political science, business, psychology, biology, international studies, and computer science. It also offers nearly 40 minors, including education. Randolph-Macon was one of the first colleges to offer English as a full discipline, and it was the first southern college to develop biology as a distinct study. Its computer science department is one of the oldest in the country associated with a liberal arts school; in the 1960s when the program was established, many academics believed computer science to be more appropriate for a commercial trade or secretarial school, rather than a traditional 4 year institution.
Randolph-Macon was founded in 1830 by the Virginia Methodists, and is the...
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