Plymouth State University is a coeducational, residential university with an enrollment of approximately 4,000 undergraduate students and 1,500 graduate students. Plymouth State was founded in 1871 and over the years has expanded to 170 acres and forty-six buildings. During its history, the institution has evolved from a normal school to a teachers' college to a state college and in 2003 to a state university. Plymouth State preserves the brick-and-ivy look of its New England small-college heritage while integrating state-of-the-art technology and facilities into an attractive, contemporary campus design.
With the White Mountains to the north, the Lakes Region to the south, and the Pemigewasset River bordering the town to the east, Plymouth, New Hampshire, is surrounded by some of the country's most beautiful and accessible natural landscape. Such ski areas as Cannon, Loon, Tenney, and Waterville Valley are within 25 miles of the campus, as are the lakes-- Big and Little Squam, Winnipesaukee, and Newfound. Plymouth is less than 2 hours' drive from Boston on Interstate 93. Two hours to the east is Portland, Maine; 2 hours northwest is Burlington, Vermont; and 3-1/2 hours northwest is Montreal, Canada.
The university offers B.A., B.F.A., B.S., M.A.T., M.B.A., M.Ed., and M.S. degrees and the Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS) in Education. Plymouth State is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), the New Hampshire Postsecondary Education Commission, and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). Program-specific accreditations include the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) for undergraduate and graduate degrees in accounting, applied economics, business administration, management, and marketing; the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs of the American Medical Association(CAAHEP) for athletic training; the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) for social work; the Society for Public Health Education and the American Association for Health Education (SOPHE/AAHE) for health education, and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Computing Accreditation Commission for computer science.
Students come to Plymouth State for its caring academic community and friendly campus, the Main Street New England setting, and easy access to New Hampshire's great outdoors.
