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The College of William & Mary [b] (abbreviated as W&M [8]) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world. [9]
William & Mary is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, established in 1693 (Harvard is the oldest). The college was the first to teach political economy; Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was a required textbook.
The earliest known drawing of the College Building, by Swiss traveler Franz Ludwig Michel, 1702. On February 8, 1693, King William III of England and Queen Mary II granted a royal charter that established the College of William & Mary in Virginia and made James Blair the first president of the college. [3]
Each has a distinct basis for the claim: North Carolina being the first to hold classes and graduate students as a public institution, Georgia being the first created by state charter, and William & Mary having the oldest founding and operations dates of any current public university, but it was a private institution for over 200 years, until 1906.
The current William & Mary Law School building opened in 1980. A statue of John Marshall and George Wythe stands at the entry to the William & Mary School of Law.. William & Mary Law School was founded in 1779 at the impetus of Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson, an alumnus of the university, during the reorganization of the originally royal institution, transforming the college of William and ...
The remaining Ivy League institution, Cornell University, was founded in 1865. These are all private universities. The two colonial colleges not in the Ivy League—the College of William & Mary in Virginia and Rutgers University in New Jersey—are now both public universities.
James Blair was born in Scotland, possibly in Edinburgh or in Banffshire.His parents were Peter Blair, minister of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, and Mary Hamilton Blair.He was educated at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh, where he received a Master of Arts degree.
Richard Bland College (RBC) is a public junior college associated with the College of William & Mary and located in South Prince George in Prince George County, Virginia. Richard Bland College was established in 1960 by the Virginia General Assembly as a branch of the College of William and Mary under the umbrella of "the Colleges of William ...