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| Bowie State University |
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14000 Jericho Park Road
Bowie, Maryland 20715
(301) 860-4000 |
President: Mickey L. Burnim
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General Information
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| Currently the University offers a wide array of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Bowie State University
continues to make strides with the matriculation of more than 5,500 undergraduate and graduate students; and remains
among the top five producers nationally of African Americans earning master's degrees in technology, science and
mathematics. Of the University's 165 full-time faculty, more than 75 percent hold doctoral or terminal degrees in
their fields of expertise.
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Undergraduate Population: 3731
Graduate Population: 1466
Percent Men: 37%
Percent Women: 63%
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Student Body: Coed
Degrees Available: Bachelor's, Master's
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In State
Tuition: 4286
Out of State Tuition: 8512
Room & Board: 2486
Application Fee: $40 - Deadline: April 1st
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| History
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Bowie State University is an outgrowth of the first school opened in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 9, 1865, by the
Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of Colored People, which was organized on November
28, 1864, to engage in its self-appointed mission on a statewide basis. The first normal school classes sponsored by
the Baltimore Association were held in the African Baptist Church, located on the corner of Calvert and Saratoga
streets. In 1868, with the aid of a grant from the Freedmen's Bureau, the Baltimore Association purchased from the
Society of Friends a building at Courtland and Saratoga streets for the relocation of its normal school until 1883,
when it was reorganized solely as a normal school to train Negro teachers.
The Baltimore Normal School had received occasional financial support from the city of Baltimore since 1870 and from
the State since 1872. In 1871, it received a legacy from the Nelson Wells Fund. This fund, established before Wells"
death in February 1843, provided for the education of freed Negro children in the State of Maryland. On April 8, 1908,
at the request of the Baltimore.
Normal School, which desired permanent status and funding as an institution for the education of Negro teachers, the
State Legislature authorized its Board of Education to assume control of the school. The same law re-designated the
institution as Normal School No. 3. Subsequently, it was relocated on a 187-acre tract in Prince George’s County, and
by 1914 it was known as the Maryland Normal and Industrial School at Bowie. A two-year professional curriculum in
teacher education, which started in 1925, was expanded to a three-year program. In 1935, a four-year program for the
training of elementary school teachers began, and the school was renamed Maryland State Teachers College at Bowie. In
1951, with the approval of the State Board of Education, its governing body, Bowie State expanded its program to train
teachers for junior high schools. Ten years later, permission was granted to institute a teacher-training program for
secondary education. In 1963, a liberal arts program was started and the name was changed to Bowie State College.
In 1970, Bowie State College was authorized to grant its first graduate degree, the Master of Education. A significant
milestone in the development of graduate studies at Bowie State College was achieved with the Board of Trustees’
approval of the establishment of the Adler-Dreikurs Institute of Human Relations in 1975. On July 1, 1988, Bowie State
College officially became Bowie State University, a change reflecting significant growth in the Institution’s programs,
enrollment, and service to the area. On that same day, the University also became one of 11 constituent institutions of
the newly-formed University System of Maryland.
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