In 1966, the board initiated the process for the college to become a four-year, degree-granting institution.

University of the West is an accredited undergraduate and advanced degree-granting institution.

In 1939, it received approval as a four-year degree-granting institution.

It became a four-year, bachelor's degree-granting institution in the early 1980s.

The school became a degree-granting institution of its own in 1975.

The Academy became fully accredited as a degree-granting institution in the same year.

The center was started as a degree-granting institution with ambitious programs in theater, sculpture and painting.

The college closed as its own degree-granting institution in 1972.

The university is the only public degree-granting institution on the nation.

It has been in continuous operation as a degree-granting institution since that time.