12 Facts About Rollins College

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Rollins College is a private college in Winter Park, Florida.

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Rollins College is Florida's fourth oldest post-secondary institution, and has been independent, nonsectarian, and coeducational from conception.

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Early benefactors of Rollins College included Chicago businessman Alonzo Rollins, for whom the college is named.

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Rollins College campus is well known for its highly decorative Spanish and Mediterranean Revival style architecture.

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Bush Science Center at Rollins College has state of the art SMART classrooms, faculty offices, and 38 teaching and research laboratories for the physical and behavioral sciences, mathematics, and computer science.

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Rollins College Walk of Fame, which circles Mills lawn, consists of stones taken from places connected to historic people.

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US News states that undergraduates at Rollins College can choose from about 30 majors, ranging from Latin American and Caribbean studies to computer science and biochemistry to theatre arts and dance.

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Rollins College MBA is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

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Adult education courses at Rollins College were initially only offered to returning World War II veterans.

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10.

Rollins College Conference, taken in the first semester of a student's freshman year, is required of all non-transfer students in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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11.

All three schools at Rollins College offer international courses to destinations such as London, Sydney, and Madrid, among others.

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Rollins College is located in Winter Park, a few minutes from downtown Orlando.

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