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 gate

Founded 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)