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Ferris State University is an institute of higher learning whose main campus is located in Big Rapids, Michigan, in Mecosta County, with a secondary campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and smaller programs located throughout the region. It is well known for its high rate of employment amongst graduates.
Ferris State University consists of eight colleges: Allied Health Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Human Services, Optometry, Pharmacy, Technology, and Kendall College of Art and Design. Ferris grants doctorate degrees via its Optometry and Pharmacy colleges. Kendall College of Art and Design is a satellite campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan with over 30 degree programs on-site locally. Via a partnership arrangement, Ferris also grants Bachelor's degrees to graduates of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Northwestern Michigan College. As of the Fall 2006 semester, a record 12,578 students were enrolled at Ferris State University, approximately 85% of whom attend class on the main campus in Big Rapids. The majority of the remainder are at its locations in downtown Grand Rapids: Kendall and the Applied Technology Center. The university's faculty-student ratio is 1:15, and all classes are taught by professional instructors, not graduate assistants. As of 2003, Ferris State University was the largest employer in Mecosta County. History The school was founded in 1884 by Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, an educator from New England who later served as governor of the State of Michigan and finally the US Senate where he remained until his death in 1928. The school was noteworthy at its time for accepting female students beginning with its first graduating class. Big Rapids Industrial School, as it was originally named, opened on September 1st, 1884. By the beginning of the next semester in January 1885 the school changed its name to Ferris Industrial School. Soon it was again renamed Ferris Institute in 1899 and remained privately owned until 1931. Ferris became a state school in 1949 and was renamed Ferris State College by 1963. The school became a university and assumed its current name, Ferris State University, in 1987. The first classes at Big Rapids Industrial School were held in temporary quarters in the present location of JCPenney. The school moved to a more permanent location which is today the Fifth Third Bank building on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Maple Street. In 1894, the campus moved into a dedicated new building known as Old Main, which was the first building in the now present location of the campus. Old Main, along with most of the original buildings at the campuses present location, was destroyed by a fire in 1950. All that remains of this original campus today is the Alumni Building. |
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