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Detroit Mercy, University of

Detroit Mercy, University of, at Detroit; coeducational; Jesuit; est. 1877 as a college, inc. 1881, became a university 1911. The present school was formed with the 1990 merger of the Univ. of Detroit and Mercy College (1941).

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