Tallahassee, FL (32301 zip code): 24 schools Montgomery, AL (36116 zip code): 39 schools Using the same parameters of private, nonprofit, 4- year colleges that offer a major in history, these are the number of schools within 250 miles of the state capitals:Ĭolumbia, SC (29210 zip code): 75 schools South Carolina might be culturally deep south, but I think that’s more of a historical cultural push rather than a geographical one. I would say they are southern, but I wouldn’t necessarily consider them part of the deep south. I also consider North and South Carolina as ‘southern’.

Honestly, that’s the only think that would make me consider an LAC but I like big schools because I think they offer a better variety, and for me that was important. A lot of the LACs have joined forces and formed into a consortium. Would anyone start a new LAC today? Probably couldn’t survive. As said, most of the southern schools are newer. I just didn’t find the southern schools of about 2000 students much different than the NE schools of the same size. Of course, Smith was much too small for me too and daughter didn’t like it either (other daughter liked it). They have the other parts of LAC like small classes, teachers who live on or near campus and mingle with the students, offer few or no graduate classes, etc.Īll of the schools we looked at in the south were much too small for me, but daughter found one she liked. I think they once were with a concentration on liberal arts, religious teachings, teaching but had to add more to survive. I just think there are a lot that function as small LAC which might not be classified as such because they have added a nursing school branch or added research centers. I’m not dissing any of the southern colleges. This might be an area where I need to do more research to see what kind of experience and education are being provided at these schools.Īnd yes, it could be argued whether all the states included here qualify as “the deep south.” Mississippi 5: Belhaven, Blue Mountain, Millsaps, Mississippi College, Tougalouĭespite living in the deep south, there are many of these names that are totally unknown to me (like Faulkner, Miles, Brewton-Parker, and Blue Mountain). Louisiana 4: Centenary, Louisiana Christian U. Georgia 19: Agnes Scott, Berry, Brenau, Brewton-Parker, Covenant The total number of qualifying schools in each state were listed, as well as the first five in alphabetical order.Īlabama 10: Birmingham-Southern, Faulkner, Huntingdon, Miles, Oakwoodįlorida 12: Ave-Maria, Bethune-Cookman, Eckerd, Flagler, Florida College That is a list of private colleges with an undergrad population below 3,000 that offer a major in history and are located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, or Mississippi. And with the growing pre-professionalization of the college degrees, I don’t have tons of hope.īut in terms of southern liberal arts schools, there might be 50, which actually surprises me. And there haven’t been that many nonprofit universities that have been started in the last 100 years, certainly not liberal arts colleges. (At some point the Ivy League or similar may have joined that list.) I think this was pretty typical prior to the Civil War, and I have a feeling (though don’t really know) that for those who made it past Reconstruction while maintaining their economically advantaged state, that it probably continued until about WWI.īut Reconstruction would probably not have been a period for much in the way of starting colleges, outside of HBCUs, I would guess. Historically, people (aka, men) in the south who were college-educated had been educated at home by private tutors and then would either go to the military academies (like West Point) or would go to Europe to the great universities (Oxford, Sorbonne), and then they would return to their elite life.

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