About Towson University

Towson University (TU or Towson) is a public the academy in Towson, Maryland. Founded in 1866 as Maryland’s first training hypothetical for teachers, Towson University is a allocation of the University System of Maryland. Since founding, the academic circles has evolved into eight additional colleges and more than 20,000 students. Towson is one of the largest public universities in Maryland and nevertheless produces the most teachers of any the academy in the state.

Towson (/ˈtaʊsən/) is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 55,197 as of the 2010 census. It is the county chair of Baltimore County and the second-most populous unincorporated county chair in the United States (after Ellicott City, the seat of approachable Howard County, southwest of Baltimore).