Mary Baldwin College

Mary Baldwin College is a personal tasteful sciences, master's-level school in Staunton, Virginia, USA. It was set up in 1842 by Rufus William Bailey as the Augusta Female Seminary. Mary Baldwin College is one of three women's schools in Virginia. The four-year establishment offers private student programs for women furthermore co-enlightening adult degree activities and graduate degree programs.

The school is the most prepared foundation of cutting edge instruction for women in the nation backup with the Presbyterian Church,and it is home to the primary each female corp of cadets on the planet. U.S. News and World Report recorded MBC as the Top 50 Regional Universities in the South for the 2015 adaptation of "Best Colleges."

Arranged in Staunton, Virginia within Augusta County, the school was at first settled as the Augusta Female school in eighten fourty two by Rufus William Bailey. Among the school's first understudies was Mary Julia Baldwin. In 1863, Baldwin was named imperative and headed the school through the Civil War, however most schools in the zone had closed as a result of the war and budgetary hardship. The school was renamed Mary Baldwin Seminary in 1895 out of gratefulness for Baldwin. In 1923, the name changed to Mary Baldwin College when the school transformed into a four-year foundation. In 1963, MBC formally completed its methodology of surrendering simply white women.

Right when Staunton Military Academy (SMA) close in 1976, its grounds and structures were purchased by Mary Baldwin College, developing the MBC grounds from 19 areas of area to 54. In 1977, MBC transformed into the first school in Virginia to dispatch an adult degree program. Cynthia Haldenby Tyson was assigned as the school's eighth president in 1985. That same year, the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted (PEG) was set up to allow educationally skilled young women to win four year confirmations

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