Centre College is a private liberal arts college in Danville, Kentucky, USA, a community of approximately 16,000 in Boyle County south of Lexington, KY. Centre is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution with an enrollment of approximately 1,325 students. Centre was founded by Presbyterian leaders, with whom it maintains a loose affiliation, and officially chartered by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1819. The College is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South. The Kentucky General Assembly chartered Centre College on January 21, 1819. The College was named for its... proximate location in the geographic "centre" of the Commonwealth, using early nineteenth century America's contemporaneous spelling of the word. Auspiciously, the legislature placed some of Kentucky's most prominent citizens in charge of Centre College's Board of Trustees with Isaac Shelby, the Commonwealth's first governor, serving as chair. Classes began in the fall of 1820 in Old Centre, the first building on campus and the oldest college administration building west of the Allegheny Mountains.
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| Location: | Danville, Kentucky
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| Founded: | January 21, 1819 |
| School type: | Liberal arts college, Private school |
| Total enrollment: | 1,242 |
| Endowment: | $
176,142,486 |
| Colors: | Gold, White |
| School newspaper: | The Cento |