Nyack College is a private, evangelical, liberal arts college affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and home to the Alliance Theological Seminary, one of the denomination's seminaries. The main campus is located in Nyack, New York. Branch campuses exist in Manhattan and Albany, as well as Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. The college was founded as the Missionary Training Institute in New York City in 1882 by Albert B. Simpson, a 19th century Christian evangelist and founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). Simpson and his wife were buried on campus. The Missionary Training Institute was later granted a charter by the New York Board of Regents and the school's curriculum was registered by the State Education Department in 1944. In 1953, the school was authorized to confer the Bachelor of Science degree and, in 1961, the Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1960, the corporation was authorized to conduct a post-baccalaureate program as the forerunner of the Alliance Theological Seminary. Nyack first received school accreditation in 1962 from Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.