The University of Richmond is a private, nonsectarian, liberal arts college located on the border of the city of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia. The University of Richmond (UR or U of R) is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,350 undergraduate and graduate students in five schools. Founded by Virginia Baptists in 1830 as a manual labor institute for men wishing to become ministers, with instruction begun by the Rev. Edward Baptist, an 1813 graduate of Hampden-Sydney College, the school was incorporated ten years later as Richmond College.