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Emma Wood Tech project

By Emma Wood

  • University of Tennessee

    University of Tennessee
    Was founded in 1794 in Knoxville. The college was open to " students of denominations " . Colleges first tuition was $8 a session.

  • University of Virginia

    University of Virginia
    Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson. The University has a highly sufficient athletic program and art program.

  • University of Alabama

    University of Alabama
    In 1820 the University was established. To this day it offers a wide curriculum of studies , is also known as the state's oldest University.

  • Amherst College

    Amherst College
    For over two centuries, Amherst has been educating a talented, diverse student body. Amherst’s historical “firsts” include the world’s first intercollegiate baseball game, and the country’s first undergraduate neuroscience program and first collegiate athletics program.

  • Tulane University

    Tulane University
    The University was first founded as the medical college of Louisiana in 1834 to serve the rapidly expanding city of New Orleans.

  • University of Mississippi

    University of Mississippi
    The University is Mississippi's oldest public university and is the state's largest by enrollment.During the Civil War, the university operated as a Confederate hospital.

  • Baylor University

    Baylor University
    was officially established in 1845 , Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the first educational institutions west of the Mississippi River in the United States.

  • University of Minnesota

    University of Minnesota
    was founded in 1851, the University temporarily closed during the civil war.The Twin Cities campus is the oldest and largest in the University of Minnesota system and has the ninth-largest main campus student body in the United States.

  • University of Maryland

    University of Maryland
    The University founded in 1856, the Maryland Agricultural College was established on ancestral land of the Piscataway tribe, which it purchased from a slave holding farmer and agricultural education advocate, and three years later opened with 34 students.

  • Louisiana State University

    Louisiana State University
    Louisiana State University began as a small all-male military school near Pineville, Louisiana.The University had its origins in certain land grants from the U.S. Government in 1806, 1811, and 1827.