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Spelman College

Spelman College
Spelman College seal.svg
Former names
Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary
Motto Our Whole School for Christ
Type Private women's college
HBCU
Established April 11, 1881 (1881-04-11)
Endowment $367 million
Budget $104.6 million
President Mary Schmidt Campbell
Students 2,204
Location Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
33°44′46″N 84°24′40″W / 33.746°N 84.411°W / 33.746; -84.411Coordinates: 33°44′46″N 84°24′40″W / 33.746°N 84.411°W / 33.746; -84.411
Colors Columbia Blue and White
         
Athletics None
Formerly NCAA Division III GSAC
Nickname Jaguars
Affiliations Annapolis Group
ACS
Website www.spelman.edu
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University rankings
National
Forbes 238
Liberal arts colleges
U.S. News & World Report 68
Washington Monthly 8

Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The college is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in Atlanta. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman was the fourth historically black female institution of higher education to receive its collegiate charter in 1924. (Two schools were strictly seminaries and one was originally coeducational.) Therefore, Spelman College holds the distinction of being America's first, and thereby oldest, private, liberal arts historically black colleges for women.

Spelman is ranked among the nation's top liberal arts colleges and #1 among historically black colleges in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. The college is also ranked among the top 50 four-year colleges and universities for producing Fulbright and Truman Scholars, and was ranked the second largest producer of African-American college graduates who attend medical school. Spelman ranks #1 among baccalaureate origin institutions of African-American women who earned science, engineering, and mathematics doctoral degrees.Forbes ranks Spelman among the nation's top ten women's colleges. The Princeton Review ranks Spelman among the Best 373 Colleges and Universities in America.


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