<p>Well some of the colleges listed areduring a time when college was somewhat rare, but still:</p>
<p>[List</a> of Colleges and Universities that have Closed, Merged, or Changed their Names](<a href=“http://www2.westminster-mo.edu/wc_users/homepages/staff/brownr/ClosedCollegeIndex.htm]List”>http://www2.westminster-mo.edu/wc_users/homepages/staff/brownr/ClosedCollegeIndex.htm)</p>
<p>Because everyone who was dying to go to those colleges died.</p>
<p>Do You know anyone who graduated from these schools? Someone on here could have graduated from a more recent college that closed. But yeah, most of these colleges I have never heard of.</p>
<p>Lots of these are religious, and most if not all seem to be private. Most average people can’t pony up the funds for a private education, especially one that is so narrowly focused (ie: super religious as opposed to a school like Notre Dame)</p>
<p>Because people weren’t interested in going to those colleges.</p>
<p>There are plenty of colleges in the U.S. for people who want to go to college.</p>
<p>Because everyone who was dying to go to those colleges died. </p>
<p>^^
Why did that make me laugh for awhile, lol.</p>
<p>The list includes mergers and name changes;Atlanta Scool of Medicine became the Emory University School of Medicine in 1915. The latest thing I heard was that Emory Medical is still going strong!</p>
<p>A similar list could be made for corporations/businesses. Organizations change identities all the time. New ones emerge, old ones merge, sometimes names are changed to improve marketing or to honor significant donors (Trinity College to Duke U.).</p>