Skidmore College

Skidmore College is a private four-year liberal arts college located in Saratoga Springs, New York. "The Young Women's Industrial Club" was founded in 1903 by Lucy Skidmore Scribner with inheritance money from her father, Joseph Russell Skidmore, a prosperous coal merchant. In 1911, the club was chartered under the name "Skidmore School of Arts" as a college to vocationally and professionally train young women.

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Liberal arts college - Saratoga Springs, New York

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Charles Henry Keyes became the first president of the school in 1912, and in 1919 it conferred its first baccalaureate degrees under the State University of New York. By 1922 the school was charted as a four-year, degree-granting college.

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Skidmore became co-educational in 1971; a Phi Beta Kappa chapter was established that same year.

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The college, which now numbers about 2,200 students, offers B.A., B.S., and M.A. degrees in many areas of study.

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