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Robins School of Business and Reynolds Graduate School of Business
In 1830, a group of Virginia Baptists opened a seminary for men, which would later become the University of Richmond. Ten years later, after the school added a literary studies program, Richmond College was established. The college moved from Richmond, in 1914, to a space west of the city that was once occupied by an amusement park. In 1920, the related women's school, Westhampton College, was incorporated, along with the law school, to make the University of Richmond. Among the school's 20th-century achievements are the launch of the school's first radio station in 1961 and a 600-foot-long banana split, made and consumed by students, in 1974.
Richmond's School of Business Administration began in 1949 and in 1979 was renamed the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business. Today, the University of Richmond has 4,250 graduate and undergraduate students from 71 countries. Continuing its growth, the Robins School is slated to open its new Queally Hall in 2010, which will add 33,000 square feet. The Robins School of Business offers undergraduate majors in business administration, accountancy, and economics, while an evening MBA program and a master's of accountancy is offered through the Richard S. Reynolds Graduate School of Business.
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