Youngstown State University

Youngstown State University

      public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. It comprises Williamson College of Business Administration, Rayen College of Engineering and Technology, and colleges of arts and sciences, education, fine and performing arts, and health and human services. In addition to undergraduate studies, the university offers a range of master's degree programs and doctorate programs in education. Research facilities include the Charles B. Cushwa Center for Industrial Development and the Center for Urban Studies.

      The university was established in 1908 as the School of Law of the Youngstown Association School. The evening school was operated by the YMCA. It became the Youngstown Institute of Technology in 1921, when it began offering liberal arts courses. The institute formed the College of Arts and Sciences in 1927 and the next year changed its name to Youngstown College. It was made a university in 1955. It came under state control in 1967 and changed to its present name. With Kent State University and the University of Akron, it created a consortium to sponsor the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, which opened in 1975.

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