Bennett College

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Bennett College is the only historically African American college for women in North Carolina and is one of two such HBCUs in the country.  Founded in 1873 as a coed institution and reorganized as a college exclusively for women in 1926, today Bennett is a private, four-year liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

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Greensboro, North Carolina

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Bennett College prides itself on encouraging its students to become leaders who are resilient and flexible in the face of modern and strenuous demands.  The College provides a space that is caring, responsive to the dreams of its students and her desires for achievement, and her individual needs. The College graduates educated women who are not only academically prepared and serious about learning, but who are also open to intellectual expansion, accepting of diversity, and strong in her determination to serve humanity.

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