Colonial colleges 包括了9个大学。历史悠久。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_colleges
有历史的学校,就是好。几百年的历练。 (除非变成了公立学校,就点可惜了)
Image | Colonial college (present name, if different) |
Colony | Founded | Chartered | First instruction (degrees) | Primary religious influence | Ivy League |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New College[nb 1] (Harvard University) |
Massachusetts Bay Colony | 1636 | 1650[3] | 1642 (1642) | Puritan (Congregational) | Yes | |
College of William & Mary | Colony of Virginia | 1693[nb 2] | 1693[6] | 1694[7] | Church of England[nb 3] (Episcopalian) |
No | |
Collegiate School (Yale University) |
Connecticut Colony | 1701 | 1701[8] | 1702 (1702 honorary MA) (1703 BA)[9] | Puritan (Congregational) | Yes | |
College of New Jersey (Princeton University) |
Province of New Jersey | 1746 | 1746[10] | 1747 (1748) | Presbyterian but officially nonsectarian | Yes | |
King's College (Columbia University) |
Province of New York | 1754 | 1754[11] | 1754 (1758) [12] | Church of England with a commitment to "religious liberty."[13] | Yes | |
College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania) |
Province of Pennsylvania | 1755 (college)[nb 4] | 1755[18] | 1755 (1757) | Church of England but officially nonsectarian[19][nb 5] | Yes | |
College of Rhode Island[24] (Brown University) |
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations | 1764 | 1764[25] | 1765[26] | Baptist (but no religious requirement for admissions)[nb 6] | Yes | |
Queen's College (Rutgers University) |
Province of New Jersey | 1766 | 1766[28] | 1771 (1774) | Dutch Reformed (Calvinist) | No | |
Dartmouth College | Province of New Hampshire | 1769 | 1769[29] | 1768 (1771)[nb 7] | Puritan (Congregational) | Yes |
US News & World Report 排名Top 5 和这个老大学建校年份list几乎惊人的相似。 这么多年就换了一个MIT (replacement of William & Mary)