Skidmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,500 students. The college is located in the town of Saratoga Springs, New York State. Skidmore college currently offers bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees in more than 60 areas of study. In 2006, Skidmore College was listed as one of the "New Ivies". Skidmore is 41st in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report ranking of liberal arts colleges. In 2009, Forbes rated it 80th of America's Best Colleges. Skidmore College has undergone many transformations since its founding in the early twentieth century as a women's college. The Young Women's Industrial Club, formed in 1903 by Lucy Ann Skidmore (1853–1931) with inheritance money from her husband who died in 1879, and from her father, Joseph Russell Skidmore (1821–1882), a former coal merchant. In 1911, the club was chartered under the name "Skidmore School of Arts" as a college to vocationally and professionally train young women. Charles Henry Keyes became the first president of the school in 1912, and in 1919 Skidmore conferred its first baccalaureate degrees under the authority of the State University of New York.