October 24, 1867 - On Oct. 27, 1867, 32 students attended Peru State College’s first classes.

The campus, in Peru, was called the Nebraska State Normal School. It’s purpose was to train young men and women in teaching, the trades, agriculture, the law and the “rights and duties of citizenship.”

For 38 years it was the only teacher education institute in the state.

It was renamed Peru State College in 1963.

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