Edward Waters College

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School Location

1658 Kings Rd
Jacksonville, FL 32209

General information

(904) 470-8000

Type of institution:	Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Federal Aid:	Institution has a Program Participation Agreement with the US Department of Education for eligible students to receive Pell Grants and other federal aid.
Degrees offered:	Bachelor degrees
Carnegie classification:	Baccalaureate Colleges--Diverse Fields
Number of students:	811 (2007)
2009-2008 Undergraduate application fee:	$ 25

Mission

I. Edward Waters College Mission Edward Waters College was established in 1866 to educate the descendants of African Americans, newly emancipated from slavery. Today, its enrollment continues to be substantially African-American students from the Southeast and Northeast regions of the United States, while also welcoming students from all racial and ethical groups within the United States and from around the world. The college is an accredited, private, four-year, liberal arts, coeducational, residential institution, committed to Christian principles which emphasize high moral and spiritual values, as a result of its close affiliation with, and support from, the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It offers baccalaureate degrees in the arts and sciences and other career-based professional fields. The College enrolls students with a wide range of educational foundations, and it seeks to develop in each of its students the high levels of competence in basic social, thinking, listening, speaking, reading, writing, mathematical, technological, and leadership skills that are the characteristics of an educated person. It also seeks to develop within each student the breadth of knowledge, the commitment to service, and adherence to high ethical values that are the characteristics of a good citizen. The institution strives to prepare its students to pursue further graduate and professional studies as well as to assume positions of leadership in commerce, industry, education, government and community service. Edward Waters College interacts with the surrounding community by providing continuing education, health and human services, promoting the growth and development of the larger community through public service programs, economic development and community revitalization. The College endeavors to develop research strategies and facilities to address academic and community issues.

About this School

Edward Waters College is a private college located in Jacksonville, Florida. It was founded in 1866 to educate freed slaves and is the oldest historically black college in the state. The first AME pastor in the state, Rev. William G. Steward, originally named the college Brown Theological Institute. The school went through some financial difficulties and closed for much of the 1870s. It reopened in 1883 with an extended educational program and its current name. The original Edward Waters College was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1901, but by 1904 new land was obtained and work was started on the new college. Edward Waters was accredited as a junior college in 1955 under President William B. Stewart and 5 years later had a restored four year curriculum. Beginning in 1979 the school was accredited as a four-year institution by Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and started awarding bachelor's degrees. The college's accreditation was last reaffirmed in 1995. Enrollment in 2004 was 987 students and wholly made up by undergraduates. During that period tuition for full-time undergraduate was $9,176. One notable Edward Waters graduate is former Jacksonville sheriff Nat Glover, and the school awarded honorary degrees to U.S. Representative Corrine Brown and John Delaney, former mayor of Jacksonville and current president of the University of North Florida. Brown also served on the school's faculty.

Tuition and Fees	2009-2008	2008-2007	2007-2006
Academic year prices for full-time, first-time undergraduate students
In-State	$ 9,176	$ 9,176	$ 9,176
Out of State	$ 9,176	$ 9,176	$ 9,176
Books and Supplies	$ 1,260	$ 1,260	$ 1,260
On-Campus
Room and board	$ 6,474	$ 6,474	$ 6,474
Other Expenses	$ 3,904	$ 3,904	$ 3,904
Off Campus
Room and board	$ 6,474	$ 6,474	$ 6,474
Other Expenses	$ 3,904	$ 3,904	$ 3,904
Off Campus w/ family
Other Expenses	$ 3,904	$ 3,904	$ 3,904

Financial aid 2006-2007

Financial aid to full-time, first-time undergraduate students

Type of Aid	Percentage of students receiving aid	Average amount of aid they received
Federal Grants (scholarship/fellowship)	72%	$ 3,678
State/Local grants (scholarship/fellowship)	60%	$ 3,986
Institutional grants (scholarship/fellowship)	55%	$ 6,000
Loans to students	69%	$ 4,581

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