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College
Name
City
State
Start Date
End Date
Affiliation
Other Information
Source
Asbury
College
Baltimore
Maryland
1816
1832
Methodist
first president was Samuel K.
Jennings
Burke, Colin B. American Collegiate Populations.
1982.
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in
Maryland. 1894.
Baltimore
College
Baltimore
Maryland
1803
1830
outgrowth of an academy
conducted by James Priestley; merged with University of Maryland
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in Maryland.
1894.
Baltimore
College of Commerce
Baltimore
Maryland
1909
1973
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Baltimore
College of Dental Surgery
Baltimore
Maryland
1839
founded by Chapin A. Harris;
building purchased by University of Baltimore and renamed Howard Hall
opened on St. Paul St., later
moved to northeast corner of Park Avenue and Wilson Street; non
denominational after 1868; N.C. Brooks was first president
http://www.boltonhill.org/neighborhood/n_history.htm
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/photos/philanthropy/html/timeline1.htm
Steiner, Bernard C.History of Education in Maryland.
1894.
Baltimore
Medical College
Baltimore
Maryland
1881
www.mdhistoryonline.net/mdmedicine/cfm/schools.cfm
www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/corporate/resources/historical.html
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in Maryland. 1894.
Rev. E.Q.S. Waldron mentioned as
president in report to Commissioner of Education
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in Maryland.
1894.
Calvert
College
New Windsor
Maryland
1851
1876
Catholic
purchased property when first
New Windsor College failed; Calvert College suffered greatly during the Civil
War; taken over by Presbyterians in 1876 and operated again as New Windsor
College;later purchased by Blue Ridge College in 1912
occupied the former Chevy Chase
Inn; initially Chevy Chase College for Young Ladies; served as Operations
Research Office for Defense Department during Korean War; now used as
National 4-H Conference Center
1st Methodist college; moved to
Baltimore in 1795 after a fire and closed the following year after another
fire
http://www.gcah.org/Heritage_Landmarks/Cokesbury.htm
Hunt and Carper, eds.Religious Higher Education in the United States.1996.
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in
Maryland. 1894.
College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in Maryland.
1894.
www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/corporate/resources/historical.html
College
of Saint James
Hagerstown
Maryland
1842
1864
Episcopal
founded on an estate at Fountain
Rock, at the time, six miles from Hagerstown; Rev. John Barrett Kerfoot
served as first president; closed by Civil War and continued afterward as a
grammer school
Hunt and Carper, eds.Religious Higher
Education in the United States. 1996.
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=10
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in
Maryland. 1894.
Coppin
State College
Baltimore
Maryland
1900
state supported
begun as teacher preparatory
program at Douglass High School; in 1926 renamed Fannie Jackson Coppin Normal
School; became Coppin State College in 1967 and Coppin State University in
2004
begun as Eastern Christian
Institute, East Orange, NJ; moved to Maryland in 1960; affiliated with
Lincoln Christian College, IL after 1993 and now known as East Coast Campus
of LCC
female seminary; operated
collegiate department and in later years awarded baccalaureate degrees
Solberg.Lutheran Higher
Education in North America.1985.
Maryland
College of Art and Design
Maryland
1957
2004
merged into Montgomery College
Maryland
College of Pharmacy
Baltimore
Maryland
1841
united with University of
Maryland after 1844
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in Maryland.
1894.
Maryland
College for Women
Lutherville
Maryland
1853
1952
successor to Lutherville
Seminary; founded by Rev. Dr. John Morris, born in York, PA, a Lutheran
minister, teacher, writer, librarian, and naturalist. After 33 years as the
pastor of the First English Lutheran Church of Baltimore and about 3 years as
pastor of the Third Lutheran Church, he served as the first librarian of the
Peabody Library in the 1860s. He was president of the Maryland Historical
Society and of the German Historical Society at the time of his death. Morris
founded the Lutheran Female Seminary (also known as Female College at
Lutherville and Maryland College for Women), and was at times a professor or
lecturer at the Gettysburg Theological Seminary, the Pennsylvania College at
Gettysburg, and in the Natural History Department at the University of
Maryland.
successor to Centenary Biblical
Institute; taken over by the state becoming Morgan State College
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/refserv/staghist/html/sh61.html
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/photos/philanthropy/html/timeline2.htm
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in Maryland. 1894.
Mount
Hope College
Baltimore
Maryland
1837
1844
Presbyterian
Rev. Frederick Hall served as
first president; occupied a building built to house a branch of United States
Bank of Baltimore;
www.mdhs.org/library/Mss/ms001647.html
Burke, Colin B. American Collegiate Populations. 1982.
Steiner, Bernard C.History of Education in Maryland.
1894.
Mount
Providence Junior College
Cantonsville
Maryland
1957
1972
Oblate Sisters of Providence
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/refserv/stagserm/ssum/html/ssum0182.html
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
Mount
Saint Agnes College
Mount Washington
Maryland
1890
1971
Sisters of Mercy
merged with Loyola College of
Maryland
www.loyola.edu/history.htm
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
www.mdhs.org/library/Mss/ms001647.html
Isabelle "Belle" Boyd,
Confederate spy was a student; the Octagon, a campus building inspired by the
theories of phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler, went on to house a succession
of religious and private schools up until 1982, when it was bought by the
United States Fidelity & Guarantee (USF&G) insurance company.
Handsomely refurbished, it's now called the Mount Washington Conference
Center.
successor to Calvert College
founded in 1851; purchased by Blue Ridge College in 1912; Steiner states that
it was established in 1843 with J.P. Carter as president as New Windsor
College by Presbyterians, was operated by Roman Catholics as Calvert College
for a time and was repurchased by Presbyterians in 1874; classes were small
with maybe 35 graduating from the collegiate department and 63 from the
ladies department prior to 1895; after 1886 Windsor Business College was
created to offer commercial courses
http://nwmayor.homestead.com/nwmayor.html
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in Maryland. 1894.
Newton
University
Baltimore
Maryland
1845
1859
Joseph B. Burleigh was first
chancellor; on his death in 1849 he was succeeded by J.N. McJilton with
Harlow W. Heath as president; two preparatory schools were connected with the
institution, the Newton University School in the university building on Lexington
and Franklin Hall at 28 N. Exeter;Perley R. Lovejoy became president after
1857
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1259/121/6050/html/douginst2.html
Steiner, Bernard C. History
of Education in Maryland. 1894.
founded as Delaware Conference
Academy; assumed name as Princess Anne Academy in 1890; later acquired by
state of Maryland and renamed Eastern Shore Branch of Maryland Agricultural
College in 1919; name change to Industrial Branch of Morgan State College in
1935; to Princess Anne College in 1936; to Maryland State College in 1948;
after 1970 known as University of Maryland Eastern Shore
www.umes.edu/about_umes/history.html
Songe, Alice H.American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Brenner, Morgan G.The Encyclopedia of College & University Name Histories.2003.
Rock
Hill College
Ellicott City
Maryland
1830
Christian Brothers
founded in 1824 as Rock Hill
Academy and purchased by the Christian Brothers in 1857
Burke, Colin B. American Collegiate Populations.
1982.
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in
Maryland. 1894.
Saint
Catherine's Normal Institute
Maryland
Sisters of the Holy Cross
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's
Colleges in America.2002.
purchased by FEMA in 1979; now
the National Fire Academy
www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/refserv/stagserm/ssum/html/ssum0182.html
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's Colleges in America.2002.
www.usfa.fema.gov/fire-service/nfa/nfa-abt1f.shtm
www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/nr/NRDetail.asp?HDID=357&FROM=NRMapFR.html
Saint
Peter's College
Baltimore
Maryland
1927
1968
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Sojourner-Douglass
College
Baltimore
Maryland
listed on Closed College
Consortium web site; however, Sojourner-Douglass maintains a web site at
www.sdc.edu;
www.ed-oha.org/cases/1990-61-st.html
Southern
Homeopathic Medical College
Baltimore
Maryland
1890
1910
received some support from state
until 1904 fire of Baltimore, soon after the institution was reformed as
Atlantic Medical College, an allopathic medical school; the school received a
scathing reviw in the Flexner Report in 1909 and closed the next year
founded for the education of
Sisters, probably never enrolled lay students
Schier and Russett.Catholic Women's
Colleges in America.2002.
Trinitarian
College
Baltimore
Maryland
1956
1969
Villa
Julie College
Maryland
1947
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
accredited as a junior college
in 1954; became independent in 1967; co-ed after 1972; became a baccalaureate
institution in 1984; authorized to offer first masters degree in 1996; name
changed to Stevenson University in 2008
http://www.vjc.edu/explore/history_main.asp
Washingon
Training College
Takoma Park
Maryland
1904
Seventh-day Adventist
became Washington Foreign
Mission Seminary in 1907, Washington Missionary College in 1913 and then
Columbia Union College in 1961
Songe, Alice H.American Universities
and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Washington
Junior College
Takoma Park
Maryland
1933
1942
Washington
University School of Medicine
Baltimore
Maryland
1827
1877
closed from 1851-1866; founded
under charter of Washington College in Washington, PA; new charter in 1839
under name of Washington Univerity with intent to add law, divinity, arts and
sciences, but the expansion did not occur; franchises of the institution were
transferred to the College of Physicians and Surgeons
www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/ead/washuniv.html
www.mdhistoryonline.net/mdmedicine/cfm/schools.cfm
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in Maryland. 1894.
Western
Maryland College
Westminster
Maryland
1867
Methodist Protestant
name changed to McDaniel College
in July 2002
Burke, Colin B. American Collegiate Populations.
1982.
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in Maryland. 1894.
Woman's
College of Baltimore
Baltimore
Maryland
1888
Methodist Episcopal Church
now Goucher College after 1910
www.goucher.edu/library/robin/program/wcob.htm
Songe, Alice H.American
Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes.1978.
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in
Maryland. 1894.
Woman's
College of Frederick
Frederick
Maryland
1893
Evangelical Reformed Church of the
U.S.
successor to Frederick Female
Seminary founded in 1840; now Hood College after name change in 1912
www.hood.edu/visitor/history.htm
Blandin.History
of Higher Education of Women in the South.1909.
www.mdhs.org/library/Mss/ms001647.html
Woman's
Medical College of Baltimore
Baltimore
Maryland
1882
1910
www.collphyphil.org/FIND_AID/hist/histlmh1.htm
www.mdhistoryonline.net/mdmedicine/cfm/schools.cfm
www.hshl.umaryland.edu/corporate/resources/historical.html
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in Maryland. 1894.
Woodstock
College
Woodstock
Maryland
1869
1971
Jesuits
seminary for preparation for
priesthood
http://www.icehouse.net/flanman/woodstoc.htm
http://www.georgetown.edu/centers/woodstock/report/r-hist39.htm
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/fl/f53%7D4.htm
Steiner, Bernard C. History of Education in Maryland. 1894.
