What are the most recently founded colleges (full-bore BA with liberal arts, not techincal/professional degree only schools or seminaries, etc.) in the USA?
What about research universities (with BA to PhD programs)?
There’s a fairly new college called “Frank Olin College” or something very similar. It’s a tech school, though; not sure if that’s what you mean. I think it started up about 2 years ago.
Souther Catholic (not a seminary) is in development - it was originally scheduled to open Fall 2003, now scheduled for Fall 2004.
http://www.olin.edu/ <-- The website for Olin College.
Olin is damned interesting; we’re already losing some good engineering candidates to them. They’re just opening for real this fall although they took an earlier class last year to help them figure out things for a year.
But they are an engineering school; probably not what drhess had in mind (as you noted earlier)
Cal State just opened “Cal State Channel Islands” campus this year-- in Ventura. I think they have classes scheduled for Fall, anyway. But it’s another Cal State so it comes with a lot of infrastructure already set in place.
What, and from who, did it cost to get Olin off the ground?
However, it is not what I meant. I mean liberal arts (ie, arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, all on one campus)
This just in: The New College is no longer new.
Heheh, neither is New School University.
Although there’s not much information on the site, Liberty University is a fairly new university that meets the OP’s requirements. It was founded in 1971.
I know … Falwell and all.
Cal State-Monterey Bay is about eight years old. It opened up on the former Fort Ord army base north of Monterey, and has already awarded bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.
The University of California is preparing to open up a tenth campus, in Merced in the Central valley.
I don’t know when it is supposed to open, sometime in the next five years or so.
Actually, it’s opening in the Fall of 2004. I’ve been told that they have about 1000 undergraduates and a handful of departments:
I’d say we have a winner!
Something like a couple dozen colleges open every year in the U.S., a lot of which are community colleges. Remember, there are several thousand colleges in the U.S. There are probably one or two older colleges each year that start their first Ph.D. program. So, really, there’s no simple answer to the OP.
couple dozen? four-year liberal art schools? assuming that’s several million a pop, seems unlikely…what do you think?
I didn’t say four-year schools. I said that most of the newer ones are community colleges. There are about 3000 colleges in the U.S. All except about a hundred of them are less than 100 years old. If 24 new ones open every year, that’s only 2400 that have opened in the past 100 years. In addition, a couple of colleges fold every year.
well, since the question is about four years, why are you saying there’s no simple answer when tossing around CCs??
Where are you getting the figure that only 100 colleges are older than 100 years? Is your 3000 figure including just 4-year colleges, anything without grad degrees, or the whole higher education ball of wax?
I guess to specify more closely, as this leads to, of the selective or highly selective schools (those taking only top layers of HS graduates), which are the newest?
It cost a hell of a lot of money, especially that Olin gives free tuition for four years to anyone applying (they aren’t accredited yet, so they need something to bring in students until accredation is granted).
A couple of months ago I read a story in the NY Times about Tom Monaghan (the founder of Domino’s) and his plans to build a Catholic university in Florida. He has big plans that I believe include a Division I football team.
Monaghan came across as very conservative in the story. He’s going to create a university that he thinks more closely follows Catholicism, which he believes other Catholic schools are getting away from.
It’s not the newest right now, since it doesn’t exist, but I think the target is 2006.
I just looked in my copy of The Time Almanac 2003. It lists all the accredited four-year institutions in the U.S. I don’t have time to count all the colleges in the list, but by counting the number on one page and multiplying by the number of pages, there must be somewhere between 1600 and 1700 accredited four-year colleges in the U.S. Let me be really generous and say that 200 of them have been around more than 100 years. (You are aware what a small proportion of the U.S. population went to college in the 19th century, aren’t you?) That leaves at least 1400 of them. That would mean that an average of 14 of them per year have opened up over the past 100 years. Even if you were to assume that all except 200 of them had opened up in the past 200 years, that would mean that an average of 7 of them per year had opened up over the past 200 years.
The question of what is the newest highly selective college is meaningless. How do you define “highly selective”? Give us a list of which colleges fit that description and we can look it up. One possibility is my alma mater, New College in Sarasota, Florida (although it’s just an undergraduate college, offering no graduate degrees). In one recent year the average high school GPA of entering students was 3.85 and the average SAT total was 1335. New College opened in 1964
I think the selective and highly selective is a designation that the SAT people used. Or at least did way back when…Also, I assume there was a baby boom impact on the opening of new schools in the mid century, and that it has slowed since. Why say “although it’s just undergrad” that was the point.
Yes the FL catholic school he’s planning is very right wing.