During Colonial Era, there were nine founding colleges: Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Rutgers, and Pennsylvania. All nine colleges existed in the British colonies. The colleges were established mainly for theological, social and political purposes. They mirrored Oxford and Cambridge schools, which was the collegiate system of higher education. This system mixed both student learning and living experiences. These experiences included students eating, sleeping, studying, socializing, and worshipping together. Only privileged white male students were allowed to attend college during the seventeen century. Families sent their son’s to school to prepare them as Christian leaders, and clergy had high