12 Facts About Maryville College

Maryville College is a private liberal arts college in Maryville, Tennessee.

Maryville College is one of the few colleges in the nation that requires graduating students to complete a comprehensive exam in their major and conduct an extensive senior thesis.

Maryville College was founded as the Southern and Western Theological Seminary in 1819 by Isaac L Anderson, a Presbyterian minister.

Maryville College expressed to his fellow clergy the need for more ministers in the community, including a request to the Home Missionary Society and an appeal to divinity students at Princeton University in 1819.

In 2004, Maryville College was recognized by the Race Relations Center of East Tennessee for its history of "contributing to improving the quality of life for all in East Tennessee".

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Maryville College was closed during the Civil War, but, upon reopening, it again admitted students regardless of race, assisted by the Freedmen's Bureau.

Maryville College's institute educated black students during the era of imposed segregation.

In 1875, Maryville College conferred the first college degree to a woman in the state of Tennessee.

Maryville College is located in the City of Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee.

In 2010 Maryville College finished the construction of the Clayton Center for the Arts.

Maryville College's oldest building, Anderson Hall, built in 1870, is currently used as a classroom building.

Maryville College previously competed in the Great South Athletic Conference, with football competing in the USA South Athletic Conference.