About Ferris State University

Ferris State University (FSU or Ferris) is a public university circles with its main campus in gigantic Rapids, Michigan. It was founded in 1884 as the gigantic Rapids Industrial School by Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, an educator from Tioga County, New York, who higher served as governor of the State of Michigan and finally in the US Senate where he remained until his death in 1928. From its foundation, the scholastic accepted female students arrival with its first graduating class. It is afterward the on your own public academic circles in Michigan to be founded by an individual.

Today, Ferris is the ninth-largest university in the allow in with 14,560 students studying upon its main campus, at one of the 19 off-campus locations across the state, or online. Two- and four-year degrees are offered through eight academic colleges and graduate degrees from six. Ferris grants professional doctorate degrees via its optometry and pharmacy colleges and a multidisciplinary doctorate of education in community learned leadership through the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, and Education and Human Services.

Big Rapids is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,601 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Mecosta County. The city is located within Big Rapids Township, but is politically independent. Big Rapids is house of the main campus of Ferris State University, a four-year public university, well known for its College of Pharmacy and the Michigan College of Optometry, as competently as its NCAA Division I hockey team, the Bulldogs, as with ease as their Division II football and basketball team.