About Plymouth State University

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Plymouth State University (PSU), formerly Plymouth State College, is a public university circles in the towns of Plymouth and Holderness, New Hampshire. It enrolls approximately 4,200 undergraduate students and 2,100 graduate students. The studious was founded as Plymouth Normal School in 1871. Since that become old it has evolved to a teachers college, a welcome college, and finally to a state academic world in 2003. PSU is share of the University System of New Hampshire.

Plymouth State is one of 311 institutions of complex learning nationwide included on the Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification. According to Carnegie, PSU was fortunate for “excellent alignment of mission, culture, leadership, resources, and practices that maintain dynamic and noteworthy community engagement.”

Plymouth is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States, in the White Mountains Region. Plymouth is located at the convergence of the Pemigewasset and Baker rivers. The population was 6,990 at the 2010 census. The town is home to Plymouth State University, Speare Memorial Hospital, and Plymouth Regional High School.

The town’s central settlement, where 4,456 people resided at the 2010 census (three-quarters of whom are scholastic student age), is defined as the Plymouth census-designated place (CDP), and is located along U.S. Route 3, south of the confluence of the Baker and Pemigewasset rivers.