College of Charleston

The College of Charleston (also known as CofC, The College, or Charleston) is a public sea-grant and space-grant university in Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in 1770 and chartered in 1785, it is the oldest college in South Carolina, the 13th oldest institution of higher learning^[4] in the United States, and the oldest municipal college in the country.^[5] The founders of the college include three future signers^[6] of the Declaration of Independence (Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, and Thomas Heyward) and three future signers^[6] of the United States Constitution (John Rutledge, Charles Pinckney, and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney). Founded to "encourage and institute youth in the several branches of liberal education," it is one of the oldest universities^[4] in the United States.

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