Transylvania University (also referred to as Transylvania or Transy) is a private, undergraduate liberal arts college in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The school was founded in 1780. It offers 38 majors, and pre-professional degrees in engineering and accounting. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Transylvania, meaning "across the woods" in Latin, is most commonly referred to as "Transy." The name stems from Transylvania University's founding in the heavily-forested region of western Virginia known as the Transylvania colony, which became most of Kentucky in 1792. Transylvania University does not take its name from the Transylvania region in central Romania. However the college does celebrate this unique link to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, in its celebration of Halloween during "Rafinesque Week". Transylvania University opened in 1780, after the Virginia Assembly adopted a charter establishing Transylvania Seminary. Originally in a log cabin in Boyle County, Kentucky, the school moved to Lexington in 1789.