Excellence and Opportunity

St. Cloud State University, located 70 miles northwest of the Twin Cities along the oak-crowned banks of the Mississippi River, provides a high-quality education at an affordable price. The university offers its 15,500 students more than 175 majors, minors and pre-professional programs in Business, Education, Fine Arts & Humanities, Science & Engineering, and Social Sciences, and 50 master’s degrees.

• Hold nearly every national accreditation available for our undergraduate programs, ranging from mass communications and business to communication disorders, education and chemistry.
• Three out of four faculty members are at the highest academic level for their field.
• Classes are taught by professors rather than graduate assistants, and students work side-by-side with professors on research projects.
• Strong international program with 800 students from 85 countries on campus, every year more than 450 students study abroad in one of 15 countries, and nearly a third of the faculty members have international teaching experience.
• The G.R. Herberger College of Business is one of three business colleges in Minnesota nationally accredited at the undergraduate and graduate level.
• Twelfth largest producer of new educators in the country with nationally accredited education programs in 16 subjects.
• Within Minnesota's state university system, SCSU offers the only master's degree programs in applied economics, criminal justice, physical education instruction, social responsibility, exercise science, sports management, and travel and tourism.
• Top five undergraduate degrees conferred are elementary education, psychology, mass communications, business computer information systems and biology.
• Nearly 240 student organizations give students leadership, management and volunteer service/learning opportunities and foster an active campus community.
• Cutting-edge technology facilitates teaching and learning: the state's best-equipped library was completed fall 2000; the number of electronic classrooms continues to grow; nearly all of the campus is wireless; and all residence halls have Internet connections to give students Internet and library access from their rooms.
• Outstanding athletic program features WCHA Division I men’s and women’s hockey and the highly competitive NCAA Division II North Central Conference. Men’s hockey games average 6,334 fans per game, and SCSU has attracted sellout crowds in 44 regular-season contests dating back to 2000.
• Celebrating 38th year of athletic competition for women. Since joining the NCAA in 1983, women’s teams have competed in numerous NCAA playoffs and more than 68 student-athletes have received All-America recognition on 100 different occasions.
• Committed to nurturing diversity.