Bowling Green State University was established in 1910 as a teacher-training institution. A total of 304 students were enrolled that first year, with a faculty of 21. The first bachelor’s degrees were awarded in 1917.

In 1929, the College of Education and the College of Liberal Arts were added to offer four year degree programs. Bowling Green attained full university status in 1935, the same year the College of Business Administration and Graduate Programs were added. Over the next five decades, several more colleges and programs were added, as well as a satellite campus now known to us as Firelands College.

Adapted from: http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/sa/life/traditions/page11690.htm

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