Institution name

Albright College

Total number of students

1667

Contact address for international enquiries

13th and Bern Streets
PO Box 15234
READING 19612

Telephone

+1 610 921 7856

Venue / office name

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Address

Selwyn Hall
READING
Pennsylvania
19612

Venue description

Albright College traces its origin to 1856. Affiliated with the United Methodist Church, Albright was formed through the mergers of three separate Pennsylvania institutions: Union Seminary of New Berlin; Schuylkill Seminary (later called Schuylkill College), Reading; and Albright Collegiate Institute (later called Albright College), Myerstown. The final merger occurred in 1929, when Schuylkill College and Albright College became Albright College at its current location in Reading. Albright College is the oldest institution of higher learning in Berks County and is located on a 118-acre suburban campus nestled at the foot of Mount Penn in Reading, Pa., a city of 80,000. The College is named for preacher Jacob Albright (1759-1808), founder of the Evangelical Association, a German-speaking denomination with beliefs similar to those of the Methodist Church. The College’s rigorous liberal arts curriculum has an interdisciplinary focus. Albright’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Fully half of Albright students have concentrations that combine two or three fields of learning.

Telephone number

+1 610 921 7538

Is accommodation available at this venue?

Yes

Accommodation details

Freshman and sophomore year students are required to live in campus housing. First-year students, assuming availability, may reside in the same residences as upper-class students. Albright also has three coed first-year experience residence halls: Crowell, Smith and Walton Halls. There are six traditional residence halls. Albright Court, Mohn, Krause, Crowell, Smith, and Walton Halls all offer coed living. Mohn and Walton Halls also have all female floors. Mohn Hall is also the academic honors residence hall, provides break housing accommodations for international students, and is available to students of all class years. There are two residence hall facilities designated as special interest housing - North Hall suites, and Albright Woods apartments. The apartments are intended mainly for juniors and seniors, and the suites are intended mainly for sophomores and juniors. Basic cable television and internet services are available in each room. Students are responsible for providing their own television, TV cable cord, and Ethernet cable. They may upgrade their cable services, at additional cost to students, through Comcast Cable upon their arrival to campus. All residence hall rooms on campus have air conditioning. The residence halls have study areas, television lounges and free laundry rooms. Custodial services clean common areas. Students are responsible for the cleanliness of their own rooms. There is 24-hour security on campus. Residence halls are always locked. Students are issued swipe cards when they arrive. Each student also receives either a key or combination for the assigned room. There are courtesy/emergency telephones at each residence hall entrance so visitors can call residents for access and residents can call the Department of Public Safety. Housing staff and Public Safety Officers also make regular rounds in the residence halls for safety and security purposes.