Wagner College is a private, co-educational, national liberal arts college founded in 1883 with an enrollment of approximately 2,500 total students located atop Grymes Hill in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in the U.S. state of New York. Wagner College was founded in Rochester, New York, as the Rochester Lutheran Proseminary to train Lutheran ministers. Its six-year curriculum was modeled on the German gymnasium. In 1886, it became the Wagner Memorial Lutheran College after a building in Rochester was purchased for its use by John G. Wagner in memory of his son. The college moved to the 38-acre (15 ha) former Cunard estate on Grymes Hill, Staten Island (370 feet above sea level), in 1918.