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University of Mary Washington

Coordinates: 38°18′07″N 77°28′30″W / 38.30194°N 77.47500°W / 38.30194; -77.47500

The University of Mary Washington is a public university in Virginia that focuses on undergraduate education in the liberal arts. The core of its main campus of roughly 4,000 mostly residential students in Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the College of Arts and Sciences, which offers degrees in various liberal arts disciplines. The University began a BSN completion program in fall of 2014 for AS-prepared nurses to earn a bachelor's degree in their field. A College of Education and a College of Business offer advanced degrees. Around 450 students are enrolled in the university's graduate programs.

History

On March 14, 1908, Virginia Governor Claude A. Swanson signed into law legislation for the establishment of the new State Normal and Industrial School for Women. It was called Fredericksburg Teacher's College. The institution was renamed Mary Washington College in 1938 after Mary Ball Washington, mother of the first president of the United States of America, George Washington, and longtime resident of Fredericksburg.

University of Mary

The University of Mary (abbreviated U-Mary) is a four-year Catholic university near Bismarck, North Dakota.

The university is the largest degree granting institution in Bismarck. It has campuses in Rome and Peru and also operates academic programs at satellite locations in North Dakota (Fargo and downtown Bismarck), Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Missouri, and Arizona. It is endorsed by The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College.

History

Since the University of Mary's beginnings as Mary College in the late 1950s, its history has been one of rapid expansion. Founded in 1959 by The Benedictine Sisters of Annunciation Monastery as a women's college, it became fully co-educational in the 1960s. It achieved university status — becoming the University of Mary — in 1986.

The University of Mary is the only private, Catholic university in North Dakota. It has been accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools since 1969. Since its incorporation in 1959, the university's enrollment has grown from 69 to more than 3,000. Ever mindful of its mission to serve the region's religious, academic, and cultural needs, the University of Mary continues to strive for quality in its academic and co-curricular programs. Its undergraduate programs have grown from nursing and education to 52 majors, ranging from accounting to theology.

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