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By 1968, York College established an accredited four-year bachelor's degree program, and officially became York College of Pennsylvania. In 1975, York College absorbed York Country Day School (YCDS), thereby expanding its mission to again encompass K-12 education. YCDS was founded in 1953 by former YCI faculty after YCI phased out the ...
Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked Allegheny 60th among the top 100 U.S. liberal arts colleges for 2022.. U.S. News & World Report ranked Allegheny as tied for 76th among liberal arts colleges, 25th for "Best Undergraduate Teaching," tied for 38th in "Top Performers for Social Mobility", and 42nd in "Best Value Schools" in the United States for 2022.
Elizabethtown College was founded in 1899 by members of the Church of the Brethren in response to an initiative by Jacob G. Francis. Francis advocated for Elizabethtown because of the proximity to the railways. First classes for the new college were held on November 13, 1900, in the Heisey Building in downtown Elizabethtown.
In the 2016–2017 academic year, about one-third (32%) of applicants were offered admission. In the 2013–2014 academic year, about 44% of students accepted for admission into the freshman class were in the top 10% of their high school or preparatory school graduating class, 69% in the top 20% of their graduating class, and 81% were in the top 30%.
The York Revolution is an American professional minor-league baseball team based in York, Pennsylvania. It is a member of the North Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, an independent "partner league" of Major League Baseball. [1] [2] The Revolution has played its home games at WellSpan Park, located in the Arch Street ...
Grove City College ( GCC) is a private, conservative Christian liberal arts college [4] [5] in Grove City, Pennsylvania. [6] Founded in 1876 as a normal school, the college emphasizes a humanities core curriculum and offers 60 majors and six pre-professional programs with undergraduate degrees in the liberal arts, sciences, business, education ...
East Stroudsburg University is situated in the borough of East Stroudsburg, located in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The university is 48.2 miles (77.6 km) southeast of the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre area and 41.9 miles (67.4 km) northeast of Allentown. The New Jersey border is 2 miles (3 km) away and the campus is ...
It was renamed Millersville State College in 1959 and officially became the Millersville University of Pennsylvania in 1983. The original Old Main of 1854 In November 1852, the Lancaster County Educational Association met in Strasburg to form an institute for teacher training.