University of Minnesota Crookston
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| Type | Public Comprehensive Baccalaureate College |
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| Established | 1905 |
| Chancellor | Fred E. Wood |
| Students | 1,821 degree seeking |
| Location | Crookston, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Campus | Rural, 108 acres (44 ha) |
| Colors | Maroon & Gold |
| Mascot | Golden Eagles |
| Affiliations | University of Minnesota system |
| Website | www |
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| National | |
| Forbes | RNP |
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| Washington Monthly | 94 |
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| U.S. News & World Report | 115 |
The University of Minnesota Crookston (UMC) is a four-year university located in Crookston, Minnesota. With 1,821 undergraduate students (Fall 2016), it is one of five campuses in the University of Minnesota system. Currently, students from 29 countries and 46 states are enrolled (Fall 2016) at the Crookston campus.
Located on the northern edge of Crookston, Minnesota, off U.S. Highway 2, the 108-acre (44 ha) campus (237-acre (96 ha) including research plots of the Northwest Research and Outreach Center) is situated in the Red River Valley, the center of a large agricultural region. The region is the transition point from the forested areas of the east to the great plains of the Dakotas.
The University of Minnesota Crookston uses the marketing slogan "Small Campus. Big Degree," meant to highlight the small-campus environment and the University of Minnesota system degree that the university offers.
In 1895, the Minnesota legislature appropriated $30,000 to construct experimental research farms at Morris and Crookston. The Great Northern Railway, under the guidance of James J. Hill, donated 476 acres (193 ha), and the Northwest Experiment Station was established.
In 1905, the Minnesota legislature appropriated $15,000 to establish the Northwest School of Agriculture (NWSA), a regional residential agricultural high school. Affiliated with the University of Minnesota, the school provided training in "the technical and practical business of agriculture and in the art of homemaking." The school year began in October and ended in March to accommodate farm students. In 1906, the Northwest School of Agriculture officially opened.
In 1963, the University of Minnesota Bureau of Field Studies began examining the need for a two-year institution of higher education at the NWSA and, in the fall of 1966, the University of Minnesota Technical Institute, a two-year (associate) degree granting institution, opened its doors to the first incoming class of 187 students.
For two years the NWSA and the Technical Institute shared the campus. In the spring of 1968 a torch was passed—figuratively and literally—from the 60th and final graduating class of the NWSA to the first graduating class of the Technical Institute, now an official coordinate campus of the University of Minnesota. In all, 5,433 students completed their high school education at the NWSA. Later in 1968 the name of the campus was changed from the University of Minnesota Technical Institute to the University of Minnesota Technical College.
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