On Oct. 1, 1872, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (Virginia Tech) was founded. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute…
On Jan. 21, 1872, classes began at the Arkansas Industrial University with seven boys and one girl in…
On Mar. 27, 1871, the state legislature approved establishment of a land-grant university, to be known as the…
On Mar. 27, 1871, the University of Arkansas was founded in in Fayetteville as the Arkansas Industrial University,…
On Sept. 20, 1870, the Iowa College of Medicine opened doors for its first class. The faculty consisted…
In 1867, less than a quarter century after the Oregon Trail opened, and only eight years after Oregon…
In 1866, The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanical Arts (University of New Hampshire) was founded.
In 1863, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) was established. The AVMA, a not-for-profit association, is one of…
In 1859, the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences was established, and in 1872 the…
In 1855, Dr. Charles E. Brown-Sequard at Medical College of Virginia conducted research in the basement of the…
In 1853 Washington University in St. Louis was founded in 1853 as Eliot Seminary by Wayman Crow and…
On Feb 28, 1850, the University of Deseret (University of Utah) was founded with classes beginning at the…
In 1850, Texas A&M (Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas) was founded.
On Sept. 20, 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded which marked the…
On Jul. 26, 1848, Nelson Dewey, Wisconsin’s first governor, signed the act that formally created the University of…
On Feb 25, 1847, the State University of Iowa, now known as the University of Iowa, was founded…
In 1847, the Yale College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was founded as the ‘Department of Philosophy…
In 1847, James Moultrie, Jr., M.D. (Dean, School of Medicine of the Medical College of the State of…
On Oct. 16, 1846, Harvard Medical School’s first dean, Dr. John Collins Warren, provided the first public demonstration…
In 1844, The Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College moved into its first permanent home, the Egyptian Building.
In 1839, the University of Missouri was founded after the Missouri legislature passed the Geyer Act, legislation that…
In 1839, two medical colleges merged into the the Medical College of the State of South Carolina. In…
On Sept. 17, 1838, Emory College classes began for fifteen students. The College was founded in 1836 by…
In 1838, The state territorial legislature passed a bill to establish a University of Wisconsin ‘at or near…
In 1837, the University of Alabama became the first in the state to offer engineering classes. It was…
In 1836, Emory College was founded by a group of Methodists in Newton County that dedicated themselves to…
In 1834, The Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute was founded in Wake Forest. It was rechartered as Wake…
In 1827, Tuscaloosa, then the state’s capital, was chosen as home of the University of the State of…
In 1825, Thomas Jefferson founded the nation’s 10th medical school which has grown into a nationally recognized academic…
In 1824, the Medical College of South Carolina opened. Although the College of Medicine was not officially established…