Liberal Arts University in Roanoke, VA

Hollins University, Roanoke:
Hollins University, located in Roanoke, Virginia, is a private university offering women's undergraduate and coed graduate programs with a liberal arts focus. A Hollins liberal arts education provides the skills that employers and graduate schools value the most. These are the skills that Hollins graduates say prepare them not only for their first job after college but also for a lifetime of career changes.

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The Hollins community sustains talented students engaged in challenging study, and productive scholars and artists devoted to teaching and to the advancement of knowledge. Experiential learning, study abroad, and internships enhance the academic program. The hallmarks of a Hollins education are creativity and effective self-expression, problem solving and critical thinking skills, and independent inquiry and the free exchange of ideas.

Hollins nurtures civility, integrity, and concern for others, encourages and values diversity and social justice, and affirms the equal worth of women and men. Our university motto, Levavi Oculos, calls us to leadership and service in accord with the Hollins values and traditions.

Accreditation:
Hollins University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, to award degrees at the bachelor and master's levels. Hollins is on the approved list of the American Association of University Women.

History:
Initially established in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary, a coeducational college, Hollins became an institution for women in 1852. Three years later, it was renamed Hollins in recognition of benefactors John and Ann Halsey Hollins who donated generously to the school. Hollins Institute became Hollins College in 1911 and Hollins University in 1998. The transition to Hollins University affirms the institution's long tradition of graduate programs, originating in 1958. Currently Hollins offers graduate programs in creative writing (M.F.A.), liberal studies, children's literature, teaching, and screenwriting and film studies.

Undergraduate Degree Programs:
- Art
- Biology
- Business
- Chemistry
- Classical Studies
- Environmental Studies
- Film
- Gender & Women
- History
- Interdisciplinary
- Music
- Political Science
- Psychology

Coed Graduate Degree Programs:
- Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)
- Children's Literature (M.A., M.F.A.)
- Creative Writing (M.F.A.)
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