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Clark University

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Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1887 with a large endowment from the businessman Jonas Gilman Clark and was known as the first all-graduate institution in the United States. Its first undergraduates entered in 1902, and women were first enrolled in 1942. It offers 46 majors, minors and concentrations in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering, and it belongs to the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts, which lets students cross-register at other Worcester institutions.

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Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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from Harvard University and taught at Smith College, Clark University, Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Southern California.
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