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Founded in 1884 by Woodbridge N. Ferris as the Big Rapids Industrial School, this college was created to provide low cost, practical training for all with a real desire to study, regardless of a lack of previous formal education. The school began in rented quarters with fifteen students, and its first courses were commerce and college preparatory work. Programs in trade-technical work, pharmacy, and teacher training followed. A pioneer school of its kind, it became a state school in 1949.
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Big Rapids, Michigan · United States
