Murray State University

The Murray State University Center for Continuing Education and Academic Outreach was organized for the purpose of carrying the facilities of the institution beyond the classroom.  It provides for the intellectual growth of those mature learners who find it impossible to come to the campus for all of their study. The Center for Continuing Education and Academic Outreach provides college correspondence courses, extended campus classes, consultants, and other types of public services.

Murray State University, located in the city of Murray, Kentucky, is an approximately 10,000-student, four-year public university. Murray State maintains a strong academic reputation and has been rewarded with high marks when compared with other regional public universities in U.S. News & World Report and other college ranking publications. The school is Kentucky’s only public university to be listed in the U.S. News & World Report regional university top tier for the past 18 consecutive years (non-doctoral degree granting universities).In addition to the main campus, Murray State University operates extended campuses offering upper level and graduate courses in Paducah, Hopkinsville, Madisonville, and Henderson.

The history of Murray State University can be traced to the passage of Senate Bill 14 by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which would create two normal schools to address the growing demand for professional teachers. One of these schools would be in the western part of the state, which caused many cities and towns to bid for the new normal school. Rainey T. Wells spoke on behalf of the city of Murray to convince the Normal School Commission to choose his city. On September 2, 1922, Murray was chosen as the site of the new western normal school, and Morehead was chosen as the site for the eastern normal school. On November 26, 1922, John Wesley Carr was elected as the first president of the Murray State Normal School by the State Board of Education. At the same time, the Normal School Commission, under the belief that it had the right to elect the first president, elected Rainey T. Wells. May 15, 1923, The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld the decision made by the State Board of Education, and Carr would be the first president.

Murray State University offers 11 associate, 64 bachelor’s, and 42 master’s and specialist programs, which are administered through five academic colleges, one school, 30 departments, and one joint program shared by the College of Business and Public Affairs together with the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology. The College of Business and Public Affairs is the largest college, enrolling 23% of undergraduate students.

Courses Offered
Occupational Safety and Health
Telecommunications Systems Management
Equine Science
Pre-Veterinary
Geographic Information Science
Gerontology

Colleges
College of Business
College of Education
College of Health Sciences and Human Services
College of Humanities and Fine Arts
College of Science, Engineering and Technology
Hutson School of Agriculture
School of Nursing

Contact Details
Murray State University
102 Curris Center,
Murray, KY 42071
Telephone (800) 272-4678
Official Website: http://www.murraystate.edu/