TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Truman State University is a public
liberal arts and sciences university located in Missouri, United States. It is
a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. More than six-thousand
students attend Truman, pursuing degrees in forty-eight undergraduate and nine
Graduate programs. The University is named after President Harry Truman, the
only president born in Missouri.
The university entrance gateFounded in 1867, the school named North Missouri Normal School and
Commercial College. It was renamed Northeast Missouri State University in 1972 and, in 1983, the university was awarded the G. Theodore Mitau
Award for Innovation and Change in Higher Education by the American Association
of State Colleges and Universities. On June 20, 1985, Governor John Ashcroft signed
a bill that designated the university as Missouri's only statewide public
liberal arts and sciences university.
A corner of the university
The school continued to win praise from such publications as US News and
World Report and the university's reputation continued to spread. Ten years
after Governor Ashcroft's designation, Governor Mel Carnahan signed legislation
renaming the school Truman State University.
Truman State University has again been
recognized by Kiplinger's Personal Finance as one of the nation's best values in
public education. Truman ranked No. 19, on Kiplinger's list of the 100
"Best Values in Public Colleges." Truman is the highest-rated
Missouri school on Kiplinger's list and was the only university in the state to
be included in the top 65.
The university library
— Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine,
February 2013
In the Washington Monthly September/October
2012 magazine, Truman State University is recognized as the No. 6 master’s
university in the nation. Truman is the only Missouri school listed in the top
50, and the only public Missouri school on the entire Top 100 Master's
Universities list.
— Washington Monthly, September/October 2012
Magazine
Truman State University is recognized as the
No. 1 Public University in the Midwest Region by U.S. News & World Report
's 2013 edition of "America's Best Colleges." This recognition marks
the 16th year Truman has been awarded this top ranking.
— U.S. News & World Report's 2013 edition
of "America's Best Colleges ."
Truman is the only Missouri school, and one of
only 37 schools nationally, to be recognized this year by Colleges of
Distinction in the Public Colleges of Distinction 2012-2013 eGuidebook.
— Colleges of Distinction
Truman is ranked the No. 1 Value in Public Colleges and
Universities by Consumers Digest (2011).
Listed as one of the nation's best universities for undergraduate
education and ranked 17th in the category "Students Happy with Financial
Aid."
— The Princeton Review, "The Best 368
Colleges," 2009
The website Parents & Colleges,
lists Truman as one of the "Ten Best Value Public Colleges and
Universities," for universities that offer an excellent education at an
affordable cost, due to low tuition rates and/or generous financial aid
policies.
(Source: www.truman.edu)