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About Indiana State University
Indiana State University, more commonly referred to as simply ISU, is a public university located in Terre Haute, which is the county seat of Vigo County, situated in the US state of Indiana, near the state’s western border to Illinois, with a population estimated at a number of nearly 60 000 inhabitants, during the 2000 census, also being the self-proclaimed capital of the Wabash Valley.
Indiana State was established on December 20, 1865, by the Indiana General Assembly, in Terre Haute, first starting as Indiana State Normal School, having the mission to educate elementary and high school teachers. After having its name changed several times, over the years, being named Indiana State Teachers College, in 1929 and Indiana State College, in 1961, the institution finally adopted its current name, in 1965, in recognition of its continuous growth.
ISU has been highly ranked by various significant magazines, such as Princeton Review, according to which, Indiana State is one of the `Best in the Midwest` (6 years in a row), its College of Education’s Graduate Program being recently named as a `Top 100`, by U.S. News & World Report, while the graduate program in nursing, has been placed among the `Top 75` in the nation, by the same magazine.
The university offers its students more than 100 majors, among the most notable being in education, business, criminology, nursing and athletic training, offered through 6 academic colleges, which include the College of Arts and Sciences, Bayh College of Education, and College of Technology. ISU is the 1st university in the state to require incoming freshmen to have a laptop, and it has one of the most diverse student populations, among Indiana’s public universities.
The athletic teams from ISU are known as the Indiana State Sycamores, who compete in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Missouri Valley Football Conference, for football, and in the Division I Missouri Valley Conference, in all other sports. The Sycamores are best known for their successes in basketball, in which they finished as the NAIB National Champions in 1950, and as National Runner-Up in 1946 and 1948, the NCAA College Division (Div II) National Runner-Up in 1968, and the Division I National Runner-Up in 1979.
The list of notable Indiana State alumni contains resonant names such as Mike Alley - President, CEO, Fifth Third Bank, H.R. Cox - bacteriologist, discovered Rocky Mountain spotted fever treatment and several typhus vaccines, Jill Bolte Taylor – `The Singing Scientist`, neuroanatomist, 2008 Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People, as well as many other people, who have made themselves notable, in various fields, after graduation.
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