Greenville University history

The State of South Carolina chartered the institution as North Greenville High School in 1904.

Greenville Women's College, photographed on May 15th, 1908.

The name was changed to Greenville Woman's College (GWC) in 1912.

It was coordinated with Furman University in 1933, merged with Furman in 1938, and moved in 1961 to the consolidated campus six miles north of town. Its name was changed to Greenville Women's College in 1914.

Due to financial difficulties brought about by the Depression, the GWC trustees asked Furman University to take over the management of the school in 1932.

By March of 1933 the Woman’s College trustees asked Furman to assume full control, with one board and one president of both institutions.

In 1934, the academy amended its charter to include a junior college in addition to the existing high school.

The South Carolina Baptist Convention formally approved the total merger in 1937.

Greenville Woman's College officially ceased to exist in January 1938 when it became the Woman's College of Furman University.

Plans for a Greenville Woman's College seal for the new campus were discussed as early as 1957.

The two student bodies remained separate until 1961 when Furman moved to its new campus north of Greenville.

In 1991, North Greenville College reaffirmed its basic commitment to quality education, applying to the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to offer bachelor’s degrees in Christian Studies and church music.

The school was given candidacy status the following summer, with its initial cohort of upperclassmen enrolling in the fall semester of 1992.

Then, in 1997, the college’s Teacher Education Program received approval from the South Carolina Department of Education.

The college continued to grow and add new bachelor’s degree programs over the years, then earned status as a university in 2006.