Fitchburg State University, additionally called Fitchburg State, is a four-year open foundation of higher learning with a reduced urban grounds, in the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States. Fitchburg State University has more than 3,500 undergrad and more than 1650 graduate/proceeding with instruction understudies, for an aggregate understudy body enlistment more than 5200. The College offers postgraduate authentications, four year certifications, and graduate degrees (counting the MBA) in more than 25 scholastic orders. The fundamental grounds, the McKay Campus School, and athletic fields involve 79 sections of land (320,000 m²) in the city of Fitchburg; the organic study fields possess 120 sections of land (490,000 m²) in the neighboring towns of Lancaster, Leominster, and Lunenburg.
Fitchburg State University was established as the State Normal School in Fitchburg in 1894 by the state lawmaking body. Its first President was John G. Thompson (President 1895–1920). At first an auxiliary instruction school for ladies (coeducation landed in 1911), the Normal School was not approved to give Bachelor degrees until 1930, after the administration of William D. Parkinson (1920–1927), and amid Dr. Charles M. Herlihy's (1927–1945) residency. In 1932, that approval was stretched out to every single scholastic control in Education. In the meantime, the name was changed to State Teachers College at Fitchburg. Dr. Charles M. Herlihy kicked the bucket while in office and was succeeded by Dr. William J. Sanders (1945–1950) and Ellis F. White (1950–1953).
Amid Ralph H. Weston's (1953–1963) administration of the school, the Education system was the essential core interest. That changed in 1960, when the school changed its name to State College at Fitchburg and included degree programs outside of Education. In 1965, the College's name advanced into Fitchburg State College. James J. Hammond (1963–1975) and Dr. Vincent J. Mara (1975–2003) were the following two presidents of the school and added numerous structures to the grounds, most outstandingly what are currently called the Hammond Building and Mara Village. All the more as of late, another west wing was added to