1. The first college in the United States, Harvard College, was founded in 1636.

2. In 1821, the first college fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

3. The first college to award degrees to women was Oberlin College in Ohio, which awarded the first B.A. degree to a woman in 1841.

4. In 1875, the first black college, Fisk University, was founded in Nashville, Tennessee.

5. In 1883, the first coeducational college, Wellesley College in Massachusetts, was founded.

6. In 1887, the first college to offer a four-year degree program in architecture, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was founded.

7. In 1893, the first college to award degrees in nursing, the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, was founded.

8. In 1895, the first college to offer a degree in social work, the University of Minnesota, was founded.

9. In 1902, the first college to offer a degree in business administration, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, was founded.

10. The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band was the first college band to march in a presidential inaugural parade in January of 1965.

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10. The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band was the first college band to march in a presidential inaugural parade in January of 1965.

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I've looked in the 1965 Aggieland and the January 1965 Battalions and can't find any articles to support this claim

but I did find this from the LBJ library:

Inauguration as President

The SWTSC Marching Band, Strutters, Bobkittens, and Color Guard were invited again to perform at Johnson's 1965 presidential inauguration. Johnson was so pleased to see the band that he stopped the entire parade procession to get out of his presidential vehicle and speak with the performers, much to the surprise of the Secret Service. Once the band reached the presidential reviewing stand, they played the "Lyndon Baines Johnson March." Thanks to Johnson, the SWTSC Marching Band will forever have the distinction of being the first civilian band in the history of the United States to lead the inaugural parade as the President's escort.

Wow, a lot of architecture was done before 1887.