The University of the South is a private coeducational liberal arts college located in Sewanee, Tennessee. It is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church, and its School of Theology is an official seminary of the church. The university's School of Letters offers graduate degrees in American Literature and Creative Writing. The campus consists of 13,000 acres of scenic mountain property atop the Cumberland Plateau, with the developed portion occupying about 1,000 acres . Often known simply as Sewanee, the school has produced 26 Rhodes Scholars and was ranked 33rd in the annual... US News & World Report list of liberal arts colleges. In 2011, Forbes ranked it 57th on Forbes List of America's 650 Best Colleges. Sewanee is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South. On July 4, 1857, delegates from ten dioceses of the Episcopal Church — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas — were led up Monteagle Mountain by Bishop Leonidas Polk for the founding of their denominational college for the region.
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| Location: | Sewanee, Tennessee
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| Founded: | 1857 |
| School type: | Private school |
| Total enrollment: | 1,528 |
| Endowment: | $
272,487,483 |