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College of William & Mary
The
College of William & Mary in Virginia
(also known as
William & Mary
, or
W&M
) is a
public
research university
located in
Williamsburg, Virginia
, United States. Privately founded in 1693 by
letters patent
issued by
King William III and Queen Mary II
, it is the
second-oldest
institution of
higher education
in the United States after
Harvard University
and the oldest in the
American South
. William & Mary is one of the original eight "
Public Ivies
," a term coined by Richard Moll in 1985 for publicly funded universities providing a quality of education considered comparable to that available in the
Ivy League
.
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