About Millersville University

Millersville University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Millersville University, The Ville, or MU) is a public university in Millersville, Pennsylvania. It is one of the fourteen schools that comprise the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). Founded in 1855 as the first Normal School in Pennsylvania, Millersville is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

First time-honored in 1854 as the Millersville Academy out of the since-demolished Old Main, the Academy specialized in a series of workshop-style hypothetical institutes in confession to the 1834 Free School Act of Pennsylvania.

Millersville is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 8,168, and in 2019 it was estimated at 8,359.