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university, Moorhead, Minnesota, United States
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Minnesota State University Moorhead, coeducational institution of higher learning, situated in the Red River valley in Moorhead, western Minnesota, U.S. It is one of seven institutions in the Minnesota State University system. The Moorhead campus was established in 1885 as one of several normal (teacher-training) schools in Minnesota. All the normal schools in the state university system became teachers colleges in 1921, when they were granted the right to award four-year degrees. In 1957 they were designated state colleges, having received the right to grant master’s degrees in 1953. In 1975 the schools all gained university status. In 2000 the ...(100 of 197 words)

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