Georgetown College

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Georgetown College is a small, private liberal arts college located in Georgetown, Kentucky (not to be confused with Georgetown University in Washington D.C.). It was founded in 1829 by Baptists under the minister Elijah Craig, inventor of bourbon. Georgetown College offers many undergraduate degrees and a Master of Arts in Education.

The school's sports teams are called the Tigers and they participate in the NAIA and the Mid-South Conference.

The school's football field and East Campus residences are also the location of the Cincinnati Bengals summer training camp.

Contents

1 Student organizations
2 Religious Affiliation
3 Maskrafters
4 External links

Student organizations

Georgetown College has an independent brotherhood known as the President's House Association. They also have four national fraternities (Kappa Alpha Order, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Tau and Pi Kappa Alpha) and four national sororities (Alpha Gamma Delta, Kappa Delta, Phi Mu and Sigma Kappa) on campus.

Religious Affiliation

Georgetown College, historically linked with the Kentucky Baptist Convention, has recently changed its relationship with the Convention.The college retains it's Baptist Heritage, but is now independent of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. [link]

Maskrafters

The Georgetown College Maskrafter theatre group is the oldest collegiate theatre company in Kentucky and offers traditional theatre, an emphasis on creating original work and new initiatives in digital motion picture art.

External links

[Georgetown College web page]

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