Where was the first public school opened in the U.S.?
History of education in the United States
New Side Presbyterians in 1747 set up the College of New Jersey, in the town of Princeton; much later it was renamed as Princeton University. Baptists established Rhode Island College in 1764, and in 1804 it was renamed Brown University in honor of a benefactor.  Brown was especially liberal in welcoming young men from other denominations.