Approximately 20-25% of students at the school are resident at the boarding houses. Sports offered include rowing and equestrian. Hamilton College was the DBA name[1] of the Iowa College Acquisition Corporation, a company that owns and operates independent for-profit colleges. At Year 11 and 12 level, the school teaches the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE). Hamilton College was a private women's college in Lexington, Kentucky, operating from 1869 to 1932.It was taken over in 1903 by Transylvania University and operated as an affiliated junior college until its closing during the Great Depression. [8], The College is reported to have a resident ghost who presents herself in the forms of odd sounds and occurrences, such as opening doors and faces in windows. The Nursery opened on the same campus in 1995. Hamilton, a 2015 Broadway musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda that is based on the life of Alexander Hamilton; William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician In November 2007, Hamilton College officially changed its name to Kaplan University. The Principal is Tom McPhail, who has held the position since 2016. The college came into existence as a co-educational school in 1962[3] as an amalgamation of the former Hamilton and Western District Boys' College which was founded in 1871, and Alexandra College, founded in 1872.[4]. It provides education from Nursery age (2 years and up) through the full 7 years of primary education and 6 years of secondary school (up to 18 years old). [citation needed], There are also rumors of a tunnel running between the secondary campus and the old "Alexandra College" campus (now the pub, Alexandra House). Hamilton College continued to expand, adding campuses in Cedar Falls in 2000 and Council Bluffs in 2004. At the Lincoln campus there was a basketball team named the Hamilton Aliens. [5], The School is Hamilton's leading educational facility[citation needed], with some of the highest Enter scores in the state. The school has been known as Hamilton College for most of its post amalgamation existence. He had already founded Scarisbrick Hall Boarding School and Tower College, in North-West England. The College has two campuses within Hamilton. [citation needed], https://victas.uca.org.au/community-learning/uniting-church-schools/, http://www.intedu.com/findyourschool/detail.php?lang=en&id=18&step=voll&mode=map&, http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1063429, http://www.gsgi.co.uk/countries/australia/melbourne/hamilton-and-alexandra-college, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hamilton_and_Alexandra_College&oldid=938804944, Educational institutions established in 1871, Secondary schools in Victoria (Australia), Short description with empty Wikidata description, Pages using infobox school with a linked country, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2009, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 February 2020, at 12:58.