Proximity to Spring Hill College the third oldest Jesuit college in the country, offering a four-year, coed, liberal arts and sciences education, as well as the University of South Alabama, the only major public institution of higher learning on the upper Gulf Coast, gives Berkshire Arms Apartments a very special appeal, With Alabama's two older universities more than 200 miles distant, the University is strategically located in the greater Mobile area, which has a population of more than a million within a 100-mile radius.