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Delaware Valley College becomes Delaware Valley University

04/08/2015, 4:00pm EDT

By Josh Verlin

Josh Verlin (@jmverlin)
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Delaware Valley College is no more. The Doylestown, Pa. institution is officially Delaware Valley University, it announced on Wednesday, effective immediately.

In order to become a University, a school must offer a minimum of five Master's degrees and one Doctorate diploma. Del-Val added three masters programs and its first Ph. D. program within the last three years.

A member of Division III's MAC-Freedom Conference, Del-Val's men's basketball team went 16-11 overall, with a 10-4 league record under the direction of seventh-year head coach Casey Stitzel.

"I think it helps us gain recognition, I think it helps for publicity for the school and I think it's definitely going to help in recruiting, because it gets this understanding that we have a lot of majors and a lot of programs of study," Stitzel said. "I definitely think it's going to help, no doubt about it."

According to the school's website, Delaware Valley University was founded on this day in 1896 as the National Farm School by a rabbi, Joseph Krauskopf; it became Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture in 1960, shortened its name in 1989 and added graduate programs in 1998. It now has over 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students.