It is a medium-sized American public university with a good reputation, strong academic atmosphere and a long history. The main campus is located in the scenic city of Richmond, Kentucky, and there are six sub-campuses in Kentucky.
Eastern Kentucky University has six colleges, nearly 65,438+000 undergraduate departments and 40 master departments, among which pedagogy is the most famous. Over the years, it has trained excellent teachers and created new courses for American universities. The school has 750 faculty members and about16,000 students.
1874, Central University was established at the present site of Eastern Kentucky University. The origin of the name Central University is mainly because Richmond, Kentucky is located in the middle of the United States.
190 1 was merged with another central college nearby because of the shortage of students and the shortage of funds at that time, but the funding problem has not been completely solved.
1906, Kentucky Legislative Yuan decided to transform the then Central University into Kentucky Normal University, so in 1922, this university was taken over as state-owned and renamed as Eastern Kentucky Normal School and Teachers College, and officially began to issue four-year undergraduate degrees.
1948, the Kentucky Legislative Yuan removed the word "teacher" after another discussion, and the university became the Eastern Kentucky State College.
1966, Eastern Kentucky College was officially upgraded to Eastern Kentucky State University. 20 10 school began to formally establish the first doctoral program to train doctors in education.