St. Cloud State University - (320) 308-0121

Educating students since 1869 on the Mississippi River in Central Minnesota. Education for Life.

An award-winning regional public university, St. Cloud State is located about an hour northwest of Minneapolis, along the oak-crowned west bank of the Mississippi River.

The 100-acre campus is between downtown St. Cloud and the Beaver Islands, a group of more than 30 islands that form a natural maze for a two-mile stretch of the river.

St. Cloud State by the numbers:

* Fall 2014 enrollment was 15,416, including 1,664 graduate students.
* The Bridges is a scenic 2.72-mile exercise route.
* Hundreds of courses offered online each semester.
* More than 3,000 degrees conferred in 2013-14
* Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education has 300 survivor videos.
* The University’s first building was purchased in 1869 for $3,000.
* Herb Brooks National Hockey Center hosts college hockey's fiercest fans.
* Noted economists have spoken at the Winter Institute for more than 50 years.

St. Cloud State offers more than 200 academic programs, including more than 60 graduate degrees.

Nursing, accounting, criminal justice studies and manufacturing engineering are key undergraduate programs. Learn more at http://scsu.mn/1w5LsgM.

Graduate programs of note include doctoral programs in education and master's programs in medical technology. Learn more at http://scsu.mn/1sEtAdD.

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