About the Institution
1867 Members of the German Reformed Church begin plans to establish a college where "young men could be liberally educated under the benign influence of Christianity." These founders were hoping to establish an altertive to the semiry at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, a school they believed was increasingly heretical to traditiol Reformed faith.
1869 The college is granted a charter by the Legislature of Pennsylvania to begin operations in its current location on the grounds of Todd?s School (founded 1832) and the adjacent Freeland Semiry (founded 1848). Dr. John Henry Augustus Bomberger, for whom the campus' sigture Romanesque building is med (see Gallery, below), served as the college?s first president until his death in 1890. Bomberger had proposed ming the college after Zacharias Ursinus, a 16th-century German theologian and an important figure in the Protestant Reformation, in order to declare the Reformed orthodoxy of the College.
Undergrad Programs / Areas offered :
Accounting
African American Africa Studies
American Studies
Anthropology
Applied Ethics
Arabic
Art
Art History
Astronomy
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Biology
Biostatistics
Business
Chemistry
Chinese
Classics
Coaching
Computer Science
Creative Writing
Dance
East Asian Studies
Economics
Education
Elementary
Education
Secondary
English
Environmental Studies
Exercise and Sport Science
Film Studies
Fince
French
Gender and Women?s Studies
German
German Studies
Greek
History
Human Behavioral Development
Human Performance Assessment
Intertiol Business
Intertiol Relations
Italian
Japanese
Latin
Latin American Studies.
Graduate Programs / Areas offered :
Master of Science in Fincial Services
The Professiol MBA.