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The university has been ranked among the national leaders in the Certified Public Accountants (CPA) examinations for the past decade, with pass rates more than three times the national average. The statistics are based on students taking the exam The view from the ISU quad leading to the Pond Student Union Building. for the first time. As Idaho’s center for education in health professions and with supporting physical and The Stephens Performing Arts Center is the jewel of Southeast Idaho. Universally lauded for its design biological sciences, Idaho State University offers and acoustics, the building is the premiere concert degrees in dental hygiene, dietetics, health-care hall in Idaho. administration, nursing, radiographic science, and speech pathology and audiology. Also offered are ISU is a leader in educator preparation, offering bachelor’s, master’s programs in education of the deaf, nursing, physical therapy, and speech pathology and audiol- master’s and doctoral degrees in teacher education, educational administration, family and consumer sciences, physical ogy. A doctorate is available in clinical psychology. education and dance, school psychology, special education, and vocational teacher education, occupational-training management, and corporate training. Neighbor to the Idaho National Laboratory and home of Idaho’s first university-related business and research park, ISU has a continuing emphasis on business, engineering and the liberal arts, helping maintain a solid base for other academic disciplines. Overall, ISU’s students take part in more than 280 certificate and degree programs in the college of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Health Professions, Pharmacy and Technology. If ISU doesn’t have exactly what a student The Swanson Arch is one of the oldest pieces is looking for, the Office of Individualized Education oversees of architecture on campus. Incoming freshmen programs that provide students the opportunity to “design” a enter the campus through the arch, and they degree in a field not formally available at ISU. Such students can exit after graduation. The arch is also on the earn Bachelor of University Studies, Bachelor of Arts in General official university seal for Idaho State. The Marshall Rotunda of the Stephens Center features a mariner’s Studies, or Bachelor of Applied Technology degrees. compass replete with engravings marking the major donors to the facility.
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grams featuring local, national and international participants. Idaho State University has grown through five name changes: the Academy of Idaho, 1901-1915; Idaho Technical Institute, 1915-1927; University of Idaho-Southern Branch, 1927-1947; Idaho State College, 1946-1963. ISU has an abundance of top-flight academic programs, including nationally acknowledged courses of study in business and pharmacy, and state-designated leadership in the health professions.