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Murray Stare University, with an enrollment of more than 7,000 students and a faculty exceeding 350, is one of Kentucky's stare-supported institut io ns of higher education.

Its 100-acre main campus is in a residential section of Murray, a city of nearly 15,000 population in the southwest corner of Kentucky. A 365-acre agricultural laborarory farm also is within two mil es of the campus.

The University is within lO miles of Kentucky Lake and only 15 miles from the Between the Lakes National Recr,eation area, a 170,000-acre wildlife and recreational paradise between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley.

The multi-purpose, co-educational University is comprised of six schools-the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Applied Science and Technology , Bus,iness, Education, Fine Arts and the Graduate School. These schools include 28 major departments.

Pre-professional courses also are offered in medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, law, rheology, pharmacy , optometry, engineering, forestry and medical technology.

Eleven baccalaureate degrees are offered and the master's degree is awarded in 17 subject areas. The University is accredited by the Nariornil Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

Student housing at Murray State includes air-conditioned dormirories for both men and women and attractive quart ers for married students. Six women's dormitories house 2,137 and six men's dormitories 2,202. There are 144 modern efficiency apartments and 32 one and twobedroom houses available for married students. Two University cafeterias provide seating capacity for 1,700.

Thel'e are six national soc ial sororities at Murray State and seven natio nal social fraternities. Other activities include departmental clubs , campus newspaper, yearbook, student government, debate, drama, musical shows and a well-organized intramural sports-program.

Several religious denominations also have student centers adjacent ro or near the campus.

Murray State is a charter memb er of the Ohio Valley Conference and its Thoroughbred athletic reams are perennial challengers for major honors in the seven intercollegiate sports in which they compete with other OVC member teams. Soccer is an inter-collegiat e, non-conference sport, while imercollegiate activities for women include tennis, track and field, volley-ball, basketball and badminton. Murray State also is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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