Towson University

Towson University is a public university in Towson, Maryland, immediately north of Baltimore. Founded in 1866 as the Maryland State Normal School to prepare teachers, it is now the largest university in the Baltimore area and a campus of the University System of Maryland. The suburban campus covers about 300 acres.

Colleges include Business and Economics, Education, Fine Arts and Communication, Health Professions, Liberal Arts, and the Jess and Mildred Fisher College of Science and Mathematics. Graduate work is concentrated in education, nursing, occupational therapy, computer science, and accounting. There is no medical school on campus.

Enrollment is about 19,000 students, including roughly 3,000 graduate students, drawn mainly from Maryland, with a smaller international share than large research universities. Instructional staff number more than 1,000. Alumni are concentrated in teaching, health, and public service in the state.

Graduate degrees are mainly master's and professional doctorates, such as in education and occupational therapy, with coursework and internships in the Baltimore region. The calendar is a standard U.S. semester system. Students use a walkable suburban campus with transit into Baltimore.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Towson University lists 1 master's program, in accounting.