Oberlin College
Oberlin College, a coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher learning under private control in Oberlin, Ohio. It has a college of arts and sciences and a conservatory of music. Graduate programs leading to an M.A. are offered. The school sponsors a number of programs for study in other countries, Allen Memorial Art Museum has collections of Egyptian, Asian, European, and American art Hall Auditorium designed by Max Abramovitz and Wallace K Harrison, is an outstanding example of modern functional architecture. The Conservatory of Music complex was designed by Minoru Yamasaki.
The college was founded as Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1833 and began college-level instruction in 1834. In 1837 it became the first degree-granting school in the United States to admit women. The name was changed to Oberlin College in 1850. (Both the school and the community were named for Jean Frederic Oberlin [1740–1826], an Alsatian Protestant clergyman and philanthropist.