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As a severe advocate for college attendance, I tend to provoke my favorite of two colleges I’ve attended: Towson University. Towson University is located in Towson, Maryland of Baltimore County eight miles north of downtown Baltimore.

Towson University was founded in Baltimore in 1866 as the State Normal School, but was moved to Towson in 1915. In 1935, it was renamed the State Teachers College at Towson followed by Towson State College in 1963. The name was changed once more, Towson State University (1976), before it was finally changed to Towson University in 1997.

The school offers more than 100 majors for more than 21,000 students with 75% as undergraduates and 25 graduates. Classrooms have a student-faculty ratio of about 17 students to one teacher. The teaching faculty totals nearly 1,600 teachers with over 800 being full-time and over 750 being part-time. They staff approximately 1,200 full-time staff and 500 part-time staff as assistants, libraries and cafeteria workers.

As Maryland’s second largest public university, Towson offers bachelor’s in majors such as Business Administration, Psychology, Mass Communication, Nursing, Elementary Education. It also offers master’s and doctoral degrees in programs such as Applied Information Technology, Human Resource Development, Reading Education, Teaching, Instructional Technology. Students can choose from 63 undergraduate majors, 44 master’s programs and four doctoral programs.

Just under half of undergraduate students receive financial aid and over half of graduate students have help paying for tuition. Tuition for the 2010-2011 school year at Towson came in at just under $8,000 for in-state students and just under $20,000 for out-of-state students. Annual room and board for the same academic year priced for less than $10,000. Towson University’s mascot is Don, the tiger, representing their school colors gold, white and black. There are 20 Division I athletic teams with 13 women’s sports and 7 men’s sports.

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Towson University was ranked tenth amongst the best public Master’s institutions in the North in U.S. News & World Report‘s 2011 America’s Best Colleges Guide. On the 2010 list of “America’s Best Colleges” in Forbes, Towson was ranked one of 100 “Best College Buys”. For the 2010-2011 academic year TU was named one of the top 100 best values in public colleges by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Towson University prides itself on being a ‘green’ college and was even placed on Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges two years in a row. More than 5% of Towson’s electricity comes from renewable resources with 10% of it’s solid waste being incinerated and going toward just that.

Towson University was the first four-year institution in Maryland to go completely smoke free; it’s rule was set in place on August 1, 2010. Yearly, Towson hosts approximately 800,000 visitors and 10,000 meetings, conferences and special events. Towson’s radio station, WTMD Radio (89.7FM) has one of the largest listening audience of any public radio station in Maryland.

Towson is a low-cost school that will give the most into a students education and the most into shaping a student for the world outside the classroom.

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