BALL STATE UNIVERSITY

public, coeducational institution of higher learning located in Muncie, Ind., U.S. The university comprises the Colleges of Applied Sciences and Technology, Sciences and Humanities, Fine Arts, Architecture and Planning, and Business and the Teachers College. Ball State awards master's degrees in eight schools and doctorates in several academic areas. University facilities include a planetarium and nature preserves. Total enrollment exceeds 20,000. The Ball brothers, manufacturers of glass containers, purchased and donated land in Muncie for a college in 1918. The college was founded that year and named Indiana State Normal School, Eastern Division. In 1922 the school had Ball Teachers College added to its name. In 1929 it became Ball State Teachers College, and it was elevated to university status in 1965.