Johnson and Wales

Johnson and Wales University was founded as a business school in 1914 in Providence, Rhode Island, by Gertrude I. Johnson and Mary T. Wales, but it soon attained full-fledged associate degree–awarding status. In 1973 the university opened the College of Culinary Arts. Four campuses—in Norfolk, Virginia; North Miami, Florida; Denver, Colorado; and Charlotte, North Carolina—were added over the next thirty years. Associated sites include Vail, Colorado, and Göteborg, Sweden, the latter for programs in business and hospitality.