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Campus Address
643 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30314
Telephone: 404-739-1000
Admissions Address
Telephone: 404-739-1560
Fax: 404-739-1565
http://www.morrisbrown.edu
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History
Morris Brown College (MBC) is a four-year, private, coed, liberal arts institution affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was founded in 1881 “for the Christian education of Negro boys and girls in Atlanta.” Morris Brown opened with 2 teachers and 107 students in 1885; it is now an institution with 450 faculty and staff members and more than 2,000 students.
The school operated on the primary, secondary, and normal school levels until 1894, with a regular academic program and courses in tailoring, dressmaking, home economics, nursing education, commerce, and printing. A theological department for the training of ministers was established in 1894. That same year the College Department began, graduating its first students four years later.
Morris Brown College’s status was changed to university in 1913, and it was granted the right to establish and operate branch institutions of learning. The heavy burden imposed by the branches on the school’s finances made it necessary to discontinue the branches in 1929, when the present name, Morris Brown College, was restored.
The primary mission of Morris Brown is to provide educational opportunities in a Christian environment that enable students to become fully functional persons in society. In fulfilling this mission, the College accepts the obligation to place events and points of view in the context of man’s long intellectual history and to expose both to the light of man’s best thinking.
MBC became the fourth member of the Atlanta University Center, a cluster of six predominantly black colleges and universities, in 1932. It is also a United Negro College Fund member school.
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General Information
Private institution
Year founded: 1881
Religious affiliation: African Methodist Episcopal
Academic calendar: Semester
Setting: Urban
Fall 2005 Admissions
Application deadline: May 1
Application fee: $30
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