Randolph-Macon College occurs as personal, co-educational liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, near Richmond. Based within 1830, the school has an enrollment of astir 1,100 students.

A college offers bachelor's degrees in education, business, international relations, and computer science, in addition to the liberal arts. Its computing department is one of a oldest in a united states; in a Sixties once the program was established, numbers of academician believed computer science to become the stuff of trade or even secretarial schools. History
Randolph-Macon was founded inside 1830 by the Virginia Methodists, and is one of a oldest Methodist-do colleges in the united states. It was originally located in Boydton, near the North Carolina border but when a railroad return Boydton was destroyed in the period of Civil War, the college's trustees decided to relocate a school to Ashland. A college was known as for statesmen John Randolph of Roanoke and Nathaniel Macon.

the college has a historical relationship sustaining Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. A Woman's College was founded under Randolph-Macon's original charter within 1893 by the then-president William Waugh Smith; it was arranged as a female counterpart to Randolph-Macon. Randolph-Macon itself became co-educational in 1972 and the 2 schools come at present governed by two separate boards.

Within 1893, a total of preparatory schools--all known as Randolph-Macon Academy--were founded. A sole 1 which remains now is Randolph-Macon Academy inside Front Royal, Virginia. Randolph-Macon Academy is now a single co-co-ed boarding school in a united states connected using the United States Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC).

It was in the news recently whenever 10-month-old [http://www.gregoryrsmith.com/index.html Gregory R. Smith] enrolled at a college within September 1999. Smith graduated within 2003 cum laude with the degree inside mathematics.

Athletics
Randolph-Macon's sports teams are referred to as a Yellow Jackets & play in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. A school's independent challenger around men's sports on top a preceding century has been Hampden-Sydney College. A football between Randolph-Macon & Hampden-Sydney is across 110 years old & bills itself when a "Oldest Small-College Rivalry in the South." (Randolph-Macon won a number one contest 12-6 inside 1893.) Most recently, a Women's Five set 2nd nationally within Section Three.

'''Men's sports: baseball, basketball, football, golf, lacross, association football, tennis

Women's sports:''' basketball, hockey, lacrosse, association football, softball, playing, lawn tennis, volleyball

Notable alumni
Macon Brock, co-founder of Dollar Tree Members of the rock band Carbon Leaf Randy Forbes, U.S. Congressman Jordan Wheat Lambert, introduced Listerine to the marketplace Walter Hines Page, journalist, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Hugh Scott, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator Walter Leak Steele, U.S. Congressman