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About Mars Hill College

Mars Hill College is a private, co-ed, liberal-arts college, affiliated with the North Carolina Baptist Convention, located in the small town of Mars Hill, situated in the US state of North Carolina, having a population estimated at a number of nearly 1800, during the 2000 census estimate. The town is actually named after Mars Hill College, and it is located north of Asheville, which is NC's largest city.

Mars Hill College was founded in 1856, as the French Broad Baptist Institute, in Madison County, about the time when the Civil War was started. It is the oldest institution ot higher learning in western North Carolina, and its original name was inspired after the nearby French Broad River, the current name being adopted in 1859, when the college was named in honor of the hill, in ancient Athens, on which the Apostle Paul debated Christianity with the city's leading philosophers.

Today, Mars Hill College has an enrollment of approximately 1000 students who have chosen traditional degrees, and more than 200 older students, enrolled in its nontraditional degree program. The college has been listed in U.S. News and World Report's annual survey of `America's Best Colleges`, as a `first-tier` regional (Southern) liberal-arts college.

Athletics

The athletic teams from Mars Hill compete in NCAA Division II, in 19 intercollegiate varsity sports, fro both men and women, including in basketball, baseball, softball, swimming, volleyball, tennis and track & field. The teams' mascot is the Mountain Lion and their official colors are royal blue and gold. The college's most recently successful sport has been men's cross country, in which the college's team has won 13 straight conference titles and have competed in the NCAA Division II meet 7 times in the last 8 years.

Notable Alumni

Among the college's noteworthy alumni there is John S. Battle, who was Governor of Virginia from 1950 to 1954, William L. Brown, president and CEO of the Bank of Boston between 1971 and 1989, Eugene L. Roberts, Jr., important editor who, in 2007, won the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book The Race Beat: `The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation`, and Liston B. Ramsey, North Carolina state legislator who served 19 terms in the state assembly.