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Henricus Colledge
The Virginia Company began to develop the first university in English North America near Henricus in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. The Colledge of Henricus, as it was known, offered a place of higher learning for both colonists and Native Americans. Now defunct, Henricus Colledge was renamed the University of Henrico and its campus now accomadates Strayer Universtity. -
New College
Now known as Harvard Universisty, the second founded Universtiy in 1663 and currently the oldest University in America. An Ivy League school situated in the Massachusetts Bay Colon, named after the College’s first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown, who upon his death in 1638 left his library and half his estate to the institution -
The College of William and Mary
Situated in the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, William and Mary was founded in 1693 and rivaled Henricus Colledge. Known as one of the only eight Public "Ivy" League schools William and Mary is now hailed to be the second oldest Universtity since the Unviversity of Henrico's Defunct Status. -
Collegiate School
Currently known as Yale University and founded 1701 in the Connecticut Colony. An Ivy League Universtiy,colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision was fulfilled in 1701. -
College of Philadelphia
Founded in the Province of Pennsylvania in 1740 by George Whitefield and later expanded by Ben Franklin The College of Philladelphia now known as the University of Pennsylvania is the sixth school to have been established in the thirteen colonies . -
College Of New Jersey
Once College of New Jersey, now Princeton University and founded in the Province of New Jersey in 1746. The Province of New Jersey granted a charter — in the name of King George II — to the College of New Jersey. Dated Oct. 22, 1746, the charter was unique in the Colonies, for it specified that "any Person of any religious Denomination whatsoever" might attend. -
King's College
Currently Columbia University in the City of New York, KIng's College was founded in 1754 in the Province of New York, the oldest institution of higher learning in the state and the fifth oldest in the United States. -
Rhode Island College
Currently Brown University and founded in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1764—the third college in New England and the seventh in America. Originally located in Warren, Rhode Island Brown moved to its current spot overlooking Providence on College Hill in 1770 and was renamed in 1804 in recognition of a $5,000 gift from Nicholas Brown -
Queens College
Currently known as Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey was founded in the Prvince of New Jersey. Chartered in 1766 as all-male Queen’s College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the school was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 in honor of trustee and Revolutionary War veteran Colonel Henry Rutgers. It is the nation’s eighth oldest institution of higher learning—one of only nine colonial colleges established before the American Revolution -
Darmouth College
An Ivy League School in the Province of New Hampshire and founded in 1769 by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock for “the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land ... and also of English Youth and any others.”
