It was a Methodist college once; there has been a divorce of sorts but the influence is still there.

In 1856, the state legislature allowed to build a Methodist college, the East Alabama Male College in Auburn.

Again, some colleges were simply too small and had too little money: the Primitive Methodist college had only one tutor until Peake arrived.

Carolina College was a Methodist college for women which operated in Maxton, North Carolina, from 1912 to 1926.

By 1857 Denison and Goodnow, along with others, hatched a plan to create a Methodist college in Manhattan.

Winfield is home to Southwestern College, a four-year private Methodist college and once also held St. John's College before it closed in 1986.

After the hurricane, there was talk of selling Gulfside and dividing the proceeds among the 12 Black Methodist Episcopal colleges.

It once featured a flour mill, stores, hotels, a post office, and a Methodist college called Factoryville College.

Elmfield College (1864-1932) was an important Primitive Methodist college, in Heworth, near York.

He attended a Church of Scotland mission school and a Methodist college.