Greensboro College is a four-year, independent, coeducational liberal-arts college, also offering four master's degrees, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1838. The college enrolls about 1,250 students from 32 states, the District of Columbia and 29 nations. The first college to open its doors within the town of Greensboro was the woman's college, Greensboro Female College. The school occupied a 25-acre campus near the heart of the city within what would become the College Hill Historic District. The institution had its... origin in 1833, when the Greensboro Female College was organized as an institution for local children. It was the intent of the Rev. Peter Doub that the institution grow to serve women. Through the Methodist Church, a charter was secured in 1838, an event which makes the college one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States. The college became coeducational in the late 1950s. The cornerstone of the first building was laid in 1843, and in 1846 the institution opened its doors to students.
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