A Different World Posters and Art Prints

Hillman College is a fictional, historically black college that was part of both The Cosby Show and the spin-off, A Different World. The exact locality of the school is never revealed, but is alluded to be halfway between Richmond and the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Exterior shots of the Hillman campus that were used in the series were actually filmed at two real-life Black colleges, Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College, both in Atlanta, Georgia. The first references to Hillman on The Cosby Show were made during season one, when it is mentioned as the place where Cliff and Clair went to school while they were engaged. Cliff’s father Russell is also a Hillman alum. The school made its first on-screen appearance in the third-seaso

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