Endicott College
Private college in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States
Endicott College is a private college in Beverly, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1939 as a two-year women's college. It began offering four-year degrees in 1988 and became coeducational in 1994.
Endicott enrolled approximately 4,300 students as of the fall 2020 semester. It offers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs, as well as graduate-level certificates, with a curriculum emphasizing an applied learning component with required internships.
The college has a 235-acre (95 ha) seaside campus. Its athletics teams compete as the Gulls in the Conference of New England in Division III.
History
Endicott College was founded as Endicott Junior College in 1939 by Eleanor Tupper and her husband, George O. Bierkoe. Originally a two-year women's college, its mission was educating women for greater independence and an enhanced position in the workplace. The school was named for John Endicott, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was issued its first charter by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that same year.
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