Georgia Morehouse College is a private college that is a fully male and historically black college. Morehouse, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the three remaining traditional male colleges along with Wabash College and Hampden-Sydney College in the United States.
The 61-acre campus has about 3,000 students. The college has an enviable ratio of 16 students per teacher. In addition, 100% of faculty members in college possession have a higher education. Along with the Interfaith Theological Center, Morehouse Medical School, Clark University of Atlanta and Stelman College of Women, MC is part of the University of Atlanta.
It is one of two black colleges in the United States that graduated from Rhodes Scholars. The college is also the head of many leaders, such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., actor Samuel Jackson, film director Spike Lee, former Bank of America chairman Mes Massie, Olympic champion Edwin Moses and Atlanta's first African-American mayor. Maynard Jackson among many others.
The Morehouse story began in 1867, when, just two years after the American Civil War, William Jefferson White founded the Augusta Institute. William Jefferson White, a cabinet maker and Baptist minister for Atlanta, founded the Institute with the support of Rev. Richard C. Coulter, a former slave from Atlanta, and Rev. Edmund Terni, who organized the National Theological Institute.
The Augusta Institute was originally founded to train African-American men in education and theology, and it was located in the oldest independent black church in the United States, Springfield Baptist Church. The school received sponsorship from the American Society of Baptist Home Missions, which was an organization that helped create several black colleges.
The college is considered one of the best schools in the United States for teaching African American men. The most popular college program is business. The college also emphasizes the value of volunteering and leadership. The college earned a chapter in the very prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society for its program "Liberal Arts."
Morehouse College offers undergraduate degree programs in the fields of education, physical and natural sciences, business and humanities. It also offers interdisciplinary majors, as well as study abroad programs in Europe, Africa and Central America. Cooperative Morehouse engineering programs are in collaboration with Boston and Auburn Universities, the Georgia Institute of Technology and several other institutions. The joint architectural program is in collaboration with the University of Michigan. Join the MC; American Institute for Diversity Management; Andrew Young Center for International Relations; and Institute of Studies in New York.
Morehouse College also offers a range of services for students, which include irregular tuition, medical care, medical insurance and employment services. In addition, MC also offers services such as safety and security on campus, including 24-hour foot and car patrols, 24-hour emergency phone numbers, night transport or escort service, lighted walkways and sidewalks, and controlled access to dormitories.
As for athletics, Morehouse College is a member of the Southern Intercontinental Sports Conference or SIAC and the National Collective Athletic Association or the NCAA, Division II. Sports activities include basketball, football, baseball, cross country, tennis and lightweight rides.
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