Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducational institution. (The first was long-vanished New York Central College.)
Lawrence's first president, William Harkness Sampson, founded the school with Henry R. Colman, using $10,000 provided by philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence, and matched by the Methodist church. Both founders were ordained Methodist ministers, but Lawrence was Episcopalian. The school was originally named Lawrence Institute of Wisconsin in its 1847 charter from the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, but the name was changed to Lawrence University before classes began in November 1849. Its oldest extant building, Main Hall, was built in 1853. Lawrence University was the second coeducational institution in the country.
Lawrence's first period of major growth came during the thirty-year tenure (1894―1924) of alumnus Samuel G. Plantz as president, when the student body quadrupled, from 200 to 800.

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Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Computer Science)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Art History)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Creative Writing)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (English)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (History)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Film Studies)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Theatre Arts)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Biochemistry)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Chemistry)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Neuroscience)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Anthropology)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Psychology)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A]/Bachelor of Music [B.Mus]

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Spanish)

Bachelor (Music)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (German)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Philosophy)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Environmental Studies)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Global Studies)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Linguistics)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Mathematics)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Classics)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Studio Art)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Economics)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Japanese)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Biomedical Ethics)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Education Studies)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Biology)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Natural Sciences)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Russian)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Geology)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Government)

Bachelor of Arts [B.A] (Physics)

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