what was the first college in the english colonies?

Question

yale, princeton, harvard, columbia?

Answer 1

William and Mary

Answer 2

Harvard College
(Harvard University) Province of Massachusetts Bay 1636 1650 Puritan

The College of William & Mary Colony and Dominion of Virginia 16932 1693 Anglican

(Yale University) Connecticut Colony 1701 1701 Puritan (Congregational)

Academy of Philadelphia
(University of Pennsylvania) Province of Pennsylvania 17403 1755 1751 Nonsectarian4

College of New Jersey
(Princeton University) Province of New Jersey 1746 1746 1747 Presbyterian

King's College
(Columbia University in the City of New York) Province of New York 1754 1754 Anglican

College of Rhode Island
(Brown University) Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 1764 1764 Baptist (No religious requirement for admissions)5

Queen's College
(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Province of New Jersey 1766 1766 1771 Dutch Reformed

Dartmouth College Province of New Hampshire 1770 1769 1768, 17716 Puritan (Congregational)

Answer 3

The College of William and Mary's website states, "The College of William and Mary was the first college to become a university (1779)." [2]
Educational historian Frederick Rudolph once said Cornell University was "the first American university" [3]. However, Rudolph did not mean that Cornell was the first university in America, but rather that it was in the vanguard of sweeping changes brought about by the Land Grant movement which created a characteristically American style of institution: coeducational, nonsectarian, egalitarian, and with a curriculum not focused on the Latin and Greek classics.[citation needed]
Harvard University, founded in 1636, is almost certainly the oldest continuously-operating post-secondary educational institution in the U.S. (see below). It claims itself only to be "the oldest institution of higher education in the United States". The claim of being "the first university" has been made on its behalf by others, e.g., Bush, George Gary (1886). Harvard, the First American University. Cupples, Upham and Company, Boston. Reprinted in 2005 by Kessinger, ISBN 1-4179-5779-4.
Johns Hopkins University says, "The Johns Hopkins University was the first research university in the United States." Johns Hopkins claim is based on its adherence to the German university model that stresses research as the primary function of a university.
University of Pennsylvania makes claim on their website of being "America's First University". The university has published a book about being the first university in America: (2000) Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania University Press. (ISBN 0-8122-3515-0) [4], and their website contains numerous instances of the phrase "America's First University."
Georgetown University claims that Jesuit teaching began on the same site where the university still stands in 1634, which, if taken to be the founding date of the university, would make it the oldest in the United States. However, formal construction of the current campus began in 1788 which is why many accept 1789 as its true founding date.

Answer 4

Harvard College in 1636

Answer 5

Harvard College was the first college in the English colonies.

Answer 6

It really depends on how you look at it college or university. The founders of the first institutions of higher education in the United States were graduates of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. The small institutions they founded would not have seemed to them like universities — they were tiny and did not offer the higher degrees in medicine and theology. Furthermore, they were not composed of several small colleges. Instead, the new institutions felt like the Oxbridge colleges they were used to — small communities, housing and feeding their students, with instruction from residential tutors (as in the United Kingdom, described above). When the first students came to be graduated, these "colleges" assumed the right to confer degrees upon them, usually with authority -- for example, the College of William and Mary has a Royal Charter from the British monarchy allowing it to confer degrees while Dartmouth College has a charter permitting it to award degrees "as are usually granted in either of the universities, or any other college in our realm of Great Britain." William & Mary was founded in 1693 by a Royal Charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II of England. William & Mary became the first college in America to become a university.