ALBRIGHT COLLEGE

The year 2006 marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of Albright College. The College dates its beginning to the founding of Union Seminary in 1856. The present Albright College was formed by a series of mergers with other institutions of higher learning founded in the 19th century by the Evangelical Association and the United Evangelical Church.

Albright College is a competitive, nationally ranked, private college that offers a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. Albright’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education, and student-faculty collaborative research. The College also offers strong pre-professional programs.

With a student-faculty ratio of 14:1, the College has 1,650 students in traditional programs, and another 500 students in Albright’s graduate program in education and undergraduate accelerated degree programs. Half of all Albright students have dual or combined majors.

Jacob Albright, after whom the College is named, was a Pennsylvania German evangelical preacher and the founder of the Evangelical Association (later the Evangelical United Brethren Church). Born in 1759 as Johannes Jacob Albrecht, his family changed their name to Albright after his death in 1808.

Albright College is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, which resulted from the merger in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church.