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Winona State University prides itself on providing quality, affordable undergraduate and graduate education. From its beginnings in 1858 as the first teacher training institution west of the Mississippi, Winona State grew into a full-fledged university with a comprehensive base of liberal studies in the arts, letters and sciences as well as specialized professional, technological and occupational degrees. More than education, Winona State provides academic preparation for life.

Enrollment at Winona State is 8,450, which includes undergraduate and graduate students. The average ACT score of new entering freshmen has steadily increased over the past five years and in fall of 2007 was 23, with the top scholarship recipients averaging 26 on the ACT. More than 78 percent of entering 2007 freshman graduated in the top half of their high school class.

Winona State University is divided into five distinctive colleges: the College of Business, the College of Education, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the College of Science and Engineering. The university offers eight master's degree programs, 82 undergraduate degree programs, 10 pre-professional programs, one doctoral program and several licensure and specialist degree programs.

Winona State is home to the first undergraduate degree program in Composite Materials Engineering in the nation. This program provides training and testing support for the growing composite materials industry in the Winona area. Becoming known internationally as "Composites Valley," the Winona area is home to more than a dozen companies involved in manufacturing products using the advanced reinforced plastics materials.

Institutional Research and Evaluation (IRE), has named WSU as one of “America’s 100 Best College Buys” for 13 consecutive years. WSU is the only Minnesota school included in this independent ranking of the value and quality of colleges and universities across the nation. WSU has been named among the “Best in the Midwest” by The Princeton Review for five consecutive years. Winona State is the only Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System member to receive this recognition. WSU ranks as a top tier institution in the 2008 listing of America’s Best Colleges published by U.S. News and World Report. WSU was ranked 52^nd among the institutions in the top tier of “Best Universities—Master’s” for the Midwest region, up from number 62 last year and number 64 in 2005.

Last year, 80 percent of all WSU students received some form of financial aid including grants, loans and work-study programs. The average award was about $3,000. There are $3.7 million in scholarships awarded annually. In fiscal year 2007, the WSU Scholarship Foundation awarded approximately 400 scholarships, totaling $599,504, with the average scholarship about $1500.

WSU is a laptop university, and is considered one of the top 50 universities in the nation for access to wireless technology, as ranked by Intel and published in U.S. News and World Report. All new entering students receive leased laptop computers. The universal access program provides students with 24-hour access to their own computer, along with service, support, software, upgrades, printing and networking capabilities.

In fall 1991, WSU opened the Residential College, located in Lourdes Hall at the former College of Saint Teresa campus. The Residential College provides students with the living-learning environment of a small private school at the cost of a public institution. The program began with 50 freshman, this year more than 800 students are involved in the collaborative learning environment of the Residential College.

Located in the southeast corner of Minnesota situated between towering bluffs and the Mississippi River, Winona State University is located in the city of Winona, a residential community of 27,000. The WSU-Rochester Center, located 45 miles west in the growing city of Rochester, Minn., helps the university to better serve the academic needs of the region.

President: Dr. Judith A. Ramaley

Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost: Dr. Sally Johnstone

Vice President for University Advancement: Dr. James Schmidt

Vice President of Student Life and Development: Dr. Connie Gores

Director of Admissions: Mr. Carl Stange

Director of Financial Aid: Mr. Greg Peterson

Registrar: Mr. Glenn Petersen

Director of WSU-Rochester Campus: Mr. Craig Johnson

Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 12:48 by Andrea Mikkelsen