Here is a list of the oldest Universities in America.
Harvard University
- FOUNDED
1636
- FOUNDED BY
Massachusetts legislature
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
6%
College of William & Mary
- FOUNDED
1693
- FOUNDED BY
King William III and Queen Mary III
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
33%
St. John’s College – Annapolis
- FOUNDED
1696
- FOUNDED BY
Maryland colony
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
87%
Yale University
- FOUNDED
1701
- FOUNDED BY
Clergymen
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
6%
Washington College
- FOUNDED
1782
- FOUNDED BY
Evolved from Kent County Free School
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
56%
University of Pennsylvania
- FOUNDED
1740
- FOUNDED BY
Benjamin Franklin
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
10%
Moravian College & Moravian Theological Seminary
- FOUNDED
1742
- FOUNDED BY
Moravians
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
86%
University of Delaware
- FOUNDED
1743
- FOUNDED BY
Francis Alison
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
68%
Princeton University
- FOUNDED
1746
- FOUNDED BY
New Light Presbyterians
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
7%
Washington & Lee University
- FOUNDED
1749
- FOUNDED BY
Scotch-Irish Presbyterian pioneers
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
19%
Columbia University
- FOUNDED
1754
- FOUNDED BY
Royal charter of George II of Great Britain
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
7%
Brown University
- FOUNDED
1764
- FOUNDED BY
Baptist Church Association support
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
9%
Rutgers University
- FOUNDED
1766
- FOUNDED BY
Ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
60%
Dartmouth College
- FOUNDED
1769
- FOUNDED BY
Eleazar Wheelock
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
12%
College of Charleston
- FOUNDED
1770
- FOUNDED BY
Several prominent South Carolinians
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
78%
Salem College
- FOUNDED
1772
- FOUNDED BY
Moravians
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
60%
Dickinson College
- FOUNDED
1773
- FOUNDED BY
Pennsylvania legislature
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
48%
Hampden-Sydney College
- FOUNDED
1775
- FOUNDED BY
Samuel Stanhope Smith
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
47%
Transylvania University
- FOUNDED
1780
- FOUNDED BY
Virginia Assembly
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
83%
Washington & Jefferson College
- FOUNDED
1781
- FOUNDED BY
Three frontier clergymen
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
42%
University of Georgia
- FOUNDED
1785
- FOUNDED BY
Georgia General Assembly
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
56%
University of Pittsburgh
- FOUNDED
1787
- FOUNDED BY
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
53%
Franklin & Marshall College
- FOUNDED
1787
- FOUNDED BY
Four prominent ministers
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
39%
Georgetown University
- FOUNDED
1789
- FOUNDED BY
John Carroll
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
17%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- FOUNDED
1789
- FOUNDED BY
North Carolina General Assembly
- RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
28%
