Harvard College, Cambridge, MA — Founded

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA — Old College Completed

William and Mary College, Williamsburg, VA

St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD

Yale College, Various locations, CT

Yale College, New Haven, CT — New Haven selected as site for college, first building erected

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA — First Quadrangle, Harvard Yard

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

University of Delaware, Newark, DE

College of New Jersey (later Princeton), Princeton, NJ

Washington College (later Washington and Lee), Lexington, VA

College of New Jersey, Princeton, NJ — Nassau Hall

King’s College (later Columbia), New York, NY

College of Rhode Island (later Brown), Providence, RI

Queens College (later Rutgers), New Brunswick, NJ

Dartmouth College

College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

College of New Jersey, Princeton, NJ — Introduction of the term Campus

Washington College, Chestertown, MD

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Yale College, New Haven, CT — Trumbull Plan for Yale Row (Completed 1803)

Williams College, Williamstown, MA

Bowdoin College

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC — Campus and Town Master Plan

United States Military Academy

University of Maryland Graduate School, Baltimore, MD

Miami University

Union College, Schenectady, NY — Campus Plan, Jacques Ramée

University of Michigan

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA — Central Grounds Plan, Thomas Jefferson

Indiana University Bloomington

The George Washington University

Hobart College, Geneva, NY

Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Case Western Reserve University

Maryland Institute, College of Art

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL — William Nichols (Destroyed 1865) Variant on the U.Va. and the Union College Plans

Randolph-Macon College

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

University of Alabama

Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH

Gettysburg College

Haverford College

University of Delaware, Newark, DE — Palladian "Old College" (wings added 1902)

Georgia Methodist Conference Manual Labor School, Newton County, GA — Chartered by Georgia General Assembly (precursor to Emory College)

Tulane University

Wake Forest University

Albion College, Albion, MI

Oxford and Emory Colleges chartered by Georgia Methodist Conference

Davidson College, Davidson, NC

Mount Holyoke College

Duke University

Emory College, Oxford, GA

Boston University

University of Missouri-Columbia

St. Mary’s College of Maryland

South Carolina College, Columbia, SC — Begun in 1803, the "Horseshoe" or Mall was completed

Hollins College, Roanoke, VA

Mary Baldwin College

University of Notre Dame

Baylor University

United States Naval Academy

Bucknell University

Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

The University of Iowa

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Davidson College

University of Rochester

Northwestern University

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus

Loyola College, Baltimore, MD

University of Florida

Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Butler University, Indianapolis, IN

Pennsylvania State University

Michigan State Agricultural College (later Michigan State University), East Lansing, MI

Maryland Agricultural College, College Station, MD (later University of Maryland)

Auburn University

University of Maryland — College Park

Illinois State University

South Carolina secedes from the Union, beginning of Civil War (1860-65)

Bard College

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

Wheaton College

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Vassar College

Morrill Land Grant

University of South Dakota

Boston College

Kansas State University

Gallaudet University

Swarthmore College

Cornell University

Indiana State University

University of Kentucky

Washburn University of Topeka

College of California (later University of California), Berkeley, CA — Campus Plan, Frederick Law Olmsted

University of New Hampshire

Howard University

Lewis & Clark College

Morgan State University

Morehouse College

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Western Maryland College

Wayne State University

Purdue University

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Loyola University, Chicago, IL

Ohio State University

Alcorn State University

Shepherd College

University of Arkansas

University of Oregon

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Colorado School of Mines

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN — Opens as the "Central University" of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Brigham Young University

Texas A&M University

University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Southern California

Drake University

Marquette University

University of Connecticut

University of Texas at Austin

Arizona State University

Bryn Mawr College

Goucher College

Moorhead State University

University of Arizona

University of Wyoming

Catholic University of America

Gonzaga University

Hatch Act establishes agricultural experiment stations

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California — Campus Plan, Olmsted and Coolidge

Clemson University

Elon College

Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

University of Idaho

University of New Mexico

Illinois Institute of Technology

University of Oklahoma

Drexel University

Stanford University

University of Chicago

World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL — The Great White City — Precursor of the City Beautiful Movement

American University, Washington, DC

Hood College

Montana State University-Bozeman

University of Montana

New York University, New York — Campus Plan, McKim Mead and White

Columbia University, New York — Campus Plan for University Heights Campus

Adelphi University

Depaul University

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA — Campus Plan for expansion of the campus

University of California, Berkeley, CA — Campus Plan Competition

Carnegie Technical Institute (later Carnegie Mellon University), Pittsburgh, PA — Campus Plan, Palmer and Hornbostel

Coppin State College

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Grambling State University

Sweet Briar College

MacMillan Commission Plan for Washington, DC — City Beautiful

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Abilene Christian University

James Madison University

Mary Washington College

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN — Cass Gilbert, Campus Plan

William A. Rice Institute (later Rice University), Houston, TX — Campus Plan, Cram Goodhue Ferguson

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX — Cass Gilbert, Campus Plan

Bowling Green State University

Kent State University

Radford University

Rice University

Smith Lever Act establishes extension services programs

Sill, Buckler & Fenhagan (later Ayers/Saint/Gross)

Webster University

MIT, Cambridge, MA — W. W. Bosworth, Campus Plan

United States enters World War I (1917 – 1918)

Ball State University

Babson College

University of California, Los Angeles

Texas Tech University

Duke University, Durham, NC — Horace Trumbauer, Campus Plan

Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany — Walter Gropius, Architect

Mount St. Mary’s College

University of Baltimore

University of Miami

Austin Peay State University

Williamsburg, VA — John D. Rockefeller undertakes restoration of Historic Williamsburg

Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, MI — Eliel Saarinen, Architect

Bennington College

Cranbrook Academy of Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY — "International Style Show"

University of Texas at Austin, — Paul P. Cret Campus Plan

Pepperdine University

Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL — Frank Lloyd Wright, Campus Plan

World War II — Germany invades Poland

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Campus Plan

World War II — American involvement in war begins

World War II Ends

Berklee College of Music

University of Illinois at Chicago

Brandeis University

The United States Supreme Court rules that the segregation of races in public schools was unconstitutional

United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO— Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Architects and Campus Planners

United States Air Force Academy

University of Alaska Anchorage

California State University, Fullerton

George Mason University

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA — Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Le Corbusier, Architect

Yale University, New Haven, CT— Morse and Stiles Colleges, Eero Saarinen, Architect

State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY

Oral Roberts University

California State University, San Bernardino

University of California, Santa Cruz, CA — Kresge College, Moore Lyndon Trumbull Whitaker, Architects (1965-75)

Hawaii Pacific University

Universidad Politécnica De Puerto

Baltimore International Culinary College

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT — Center for the Fine Arts, Roche-Dinkeloo, Architects

Wor-Wic Community College, MD

California State University, San Marcos