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  1. 2. Highest among all HBCUs and is well above the national graduation rate
  2. 4. "UCF"
  3. 6. The university is the oldest Catholic university in Pennsylvania and one of two Augustinian institutions in the United States.
  4. 8. Republic President Anson Jones signed the Act of Congress on Feb. 1, 1845, officially establishing this school
  5. 9. On May 18, 1891, Massachusetts-born businessman William Marsh Rice chartered the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art as a gift to the city of Houston, where he made his fortune.
  6. 10. The first U.S. university based on the European research institution model.
  7. 15. traces its origins to a small school that opened in 1838 in Randolph County, North Carolina.
  8. 17. Chartered in 1746, and known as the College of New Jersey until 1896, it was British North America's fourth college.
  9. 19. Founded by Dr. Arthur Keiser and Evelyn Keiser in 1977.
  10. 20. #2 HBCU
  11. 26. the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia.
  12. 28. college with highest acceptance rate
  13. 29. traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont, in 1839
  14. 30. Forty-five U.S. presidents, 52 Nobel laureates, 19 U.S. Supreme Court justices, and 13 current billionaires have came from this school .
  15. 31. Founded in 1847, the university is Iowa's oldest public institution of higher learning.
Down
  1. 1. Merged with Southeastern University of the Health Sciences in 1994 to form the present institution.
  2. 3. The university is named after Rev. Jacques Marquette, S.J. (1637-75), a French missionary and explorer in North America.
  3. 5. The school was built in 1904 with $1.50
  4. 7. became a private university in 1884 when the public University of Louisiana was reorganized and named in honor of benefactor Paul Tulane.
  5. 11. Founded in 1912 after its organization in 1909 as the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School.
  6. 12. the second oldest college in the U.S. King William III and Queen Mary II of England founded the school in 1693.
  7. 13. From 1941-1946, some 1,000 Black pilots were trained here
  8. 14. located in Bethlehem, Pa., 50 miles north of Philadelphia and 75 miles west of New York City.
  9. 16. “Seminoles”
  10. 18. established in 1948 by the American Jewish community at a time when Jews and other ethnic and racial minorities, and women, faced discrimination in higher education.
  11. 21. There have been 161 Nobel Laureates, 23 heads of state, and 132 Pulitzer Prize winners who graduated from Harvard University.
  12. 22. Institute of Technology #1 ranked college in America
  13. 23. Founded in 1852 by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning.
  14. 24. The most Turing Award winners of any institution worldwide.
  15. 25. Incorporated in 1890, the University has dated its founding as July 1, 1891, when William Rainey Harper became its first president.
  16. 27. Founded in 1885 by New England Congregationalists who sought to bring their style of liberal arts education to the Florida frontier.