Albright College
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| Motto | Veritas et Justitia |
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Motto in English
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Truth and Justice |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1856 |
| Affiliation | United Methodist Church |
| Endowment | $66 million |
| President | Lex O. McMillan, III |
| Students | 2,320 |
| Undergraduates | 1,800 traditional day and about 700 Accelerated Degree Programs and graduate students |
| Location | Reading, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Campus | Suburban 118 acres (48 ha) |
| Colors | Red and White |
| Athletics | NCAA Division III-MAC |
| Nickname | Lions |
| Website | www.albright.edu |
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Albright College is a private, co-educational, liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1856 and is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States.
Albright College offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees, as well as a Master of Arts and Master of Science degrees in education.
The college also offers accelerated degree programs with 10 locations throughout Pennsylvania.
Albright does not require applicants to take the SAT or submit SAT scores; submission of these scores is optional.
Albright offers liberal arts and pre-professional programs. It created one of the first undergraduate psychobiology programs in the nation in the 1960s. The College's liberal arts curriculum has an interdisciplinary focus that allows students to create an individualized education. Fully half of Albright students have concentrations that combine two or three fields of learning.
Berks County's oldest institute of higher learning, Albright College traces its founding to 1856 when Union Seminary opened. Present-day Albright was actually formed by the mergers of several institutions.
Albright Collegiate Institute opened in 1895 and was renamed Albright College three years later. Union Seminary became Central Pennsylvania College and, in 1902, merged with Albright College. Schuylkill College, previously called Schuylkill Seminary, merged with Albright College in 1928. Albright's campus relocated from Myerstown, to Schuylkill College’s campus, which is the present location of Albright, at the base of Mount Penn in Reading.
The College is named for Pennsylvania-German evangelical preacher Jacob Albright, who founded the Evangelical Association (later known as the Evangelical United Brethren Church). Born in 1759 in Douglass Township, (now Montgomery County) with the given name of Johannes Jacob Albrecht, the family changed their surname to "Albright" following Jacob's 1808 death.
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