The title is popular worldwide and is used by over 500,000 students in both high school and college-level classes.
Reportedly, no students were enrolled in college-level classes before the school ceased operations in 1863.
Students enter that program after completing 10th or 11th grade and take college-level classes.
The college-level classes continued to be overseen by a committee of the state legislature.
Recruits take college-level academic classes for which they receive 45 college credits.
At various times the school offered advanced college-level classes to students as young as tenth grade.
And they often require months of arduous course work before they are even ready to begin college-level classes.
Advanced Placement classes are college-level classes offered at the high school campus.
The school began teaching college-level classes in 1869, and the first class (of four students) graduated from the university in 1873.
In 1983 it began to offer college-level classes as well through a relationship with Xavier University.