University of Toledo

The University of Toledo is a public university in Toledo, Ohio. The college was established in 1872. Currently (2012 ) enrolled 23 085 students here. 2006, the University of Toledo merged with the Medical University of Ohio.

1868 published Jesup Wakeman Scott, a newspaper editor from Toledo, a pamphlet with the title " Toledo. Future Great City of the World" He explained his idea that the center of world trade would shift farther and farther to the west, and would achieve by the year 1900 Toledo. In preparation for this development, he donated 160 acres of land for a university foundation and on 12 October 1872, the Toledo University of Arts and Trades was established. Scott died in 1874, a year before the university was opened in a former church in the center of Toledo. The facility was quickly into financial difficulties and had been close in 1878. On 8 January 1884, the assets remaining mass of the city of Toledo has been transferred and the school was reopened in urban sponsorship as Toledo Manual Training School. The training program lasted three years and was on students who were at least 13 years old, directed. They received both scientific and craft instructions.

Faculties

  • Health Sciences and Human Services
  • Engineering
  • Arts and Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Education
  • Pharmacy
  • Care
  • Law
  • Economics
  • University College

Sports

The sports teams of the University of Toledo, the Rockets. The university is a member of the Mid- American Conference ( Division West).

Famous graduates

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