Towson University

Towson University which is often referred to as TU or simply as Towson for short form. This university is a public university located in Towson at  Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It university is also a part of the University System of Maryland. Towson University was founded in 1866 as Maryland's first training school for teachers, Towson University has evolved into a 4-year degree-granting establishment consisting of eight faculties with over twenty,000 students listed. Towson is one in all the biggest public universities in Maryland and still produces the foremost academics of any university within the state.

The U.S. News & World Report graded Towson University eighth within the Public Universities-Master’s (North) class for its 2010 America's Best faculties issue. Forbes enclosed Towson University in its 2009 list of the highest one hundred public faculties and universities within the us. Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine named Towson University one in all the highest one hundred best values publicly faculties for the 2008-2009 year.

The General Assembly of Maryland established what would eventually become Towson University in 1865, with the allocation of funds directed toward Maryland’s initial teacher-training faculty, or then referred to as "normal school" (term used from a brand new French tradition). On Gregorian calendar month fifteen, 1866, this establishment, legendary then because the "Maryland State traditional School" (M.S.N.S.), formally opened its doors as a part of the substantial trendy instructional reforms prescribed by the Unionist/Radical Republican Party-dominated Maryland Constitution of 1864 of the Civil War-era regime, that provided for a brand new state superintendent of public instruction and a Board of Education to be appointed to advise and supervise the counties, additionally to the already progressive public instructional system antecedently established in 1829 in city town.