When was Plymouth State University founded?”
Plymouth State University, formerly Plymouth State College, is a regional comprehensive university located in Plymouth, New Hampshire and part of the University System of New Hampshire. Plymouth State University is a coeducational, residential university with an enrollment of approximately 4,300 undergraduate students and 2,262 graduate students. The school was founded as Plymouth Normal School in 1871. Since that time it has evolved to a Teachers College, a State College, and finally to a State University in 2003. It was founded as a teacher’s college, and it still retains a distinguished teaching program/major to this day. Since that time however, it has diversified its academic profile, adding many new majors and fields of study. The school has become known in recent years for its meteorology program (Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute), which is considered one of the best in the eastern United States, and is also strong in business, visual and performing arts, interdisciplinary studi
Plymouth State University history can be traced back to the New Hampshire State Normal School. The first New Hampshire State Normal School opened in Plymouth on March 15, 1871 with 80 students. As the first N.H. school for training teachers for public schools (and one of the first in the U.S.) the school was established for the better training of teachers by securing the best teachers to manage and instruct them. Plymouth Teachers College Plymouth Teachers College evolved from the Normal School in 1939. As in the Normal School years, Plymouth Teachers College students had a common goal—to train as the state’s best teachers. Students took their classes together, were “in training” together, and shared the experience of the aftermath of shocking world events such a “great depression,” world-wide wars, and the first U.S. “police actions.” The goal of PTC expanded from not only educating the best teachers but also developing happy and responsible individuals who would contribute to the bet
Plymouth State University, formerly Plymouth State College, is a regional comprehensive university located in Plymouth, New Hampshire and part of the University System of New Hampshire. Plymouth State University is a coeducational, residential university with an enrollment of approximately 4,300 undergraduate students and 2,262 graduate students. The school was founded as Plymouth Normal School in 1871. Since that time it has evolved to a Teachers College, a State College, and finally to a State University in 2003.
