Berea College
Official Logo of Berea College
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| Motto | God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth. |
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| Type | Private Undergraduate liberal arts college |
| Established | 1855 |
| Affiliation | Christian (unaffiliated) |
| Endowment | $1.012 billion (2013) |
| President | Lyle Roelofs |
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Academic staff
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131 |
| Undergraduates | 1,613 |
| Postgraduates | 0 |
| Location | Berea, KY, US |
| Campus | Exurban (140 acres) |
| Colors | Blue █ and White █ |
| Nickname | Mountaineers |
| Affiliations | NCAA Division III — Independent |
| Website | www.berea.edu |
Berea College is a liberal arts work college in the city of Berea and is located in Madison County, approximately 35 miles south of Lexington, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Founded in 1855, Berea College is distinctive among post-secondary institutions for providing free education to students and for having been the first college in the Southern United States to be coeducational and racially integrated. Berea College charges no tuition; every admitted student is provided the equivalent of a four-year, full-tuition scholarship (currently worth $97,200; $24,300 per year).
Berea offers Bachelor's degrees in 32 majors. It has a full-participation work-study program where students are required to work at least 10 hours per week in campus and service jobs in over 130 departments. Berea's primary service region is Southern Appalachia, but students come from 46 states in the United States and 58 other countries, with approximately one in three students an ethnic minority or international.
Founded in 1855 by the abolitionist John Gregg Fee (1816–1901), Berea College admitted both black and white students in a fully integrated curriculum, making it the first non-segregated, coeducational college in the South and one of a handful of institutions of higher learning to admit both male and female students in the mid-19th century. The college began as a one-room schoolhouse that also served as a church on Sundays on land that was granted to Fee by politician and abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay. Fee named the new community after the biblical Berea. Although the school's first articles of incorporation were adopted in 1859, founder John Gregg Fee and the teachers were forced out of the area by pro-slavery supporters in that same year.
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