Kutztown University

On September 15, 1866, the Keystone State Normal School was established on what is now the site of Old Main. The needs of a burgeoning industrialization in the region placed more and more demands on teacher preparation, and in 1928, the institution was designated Kutztown State Teacher's College and authorized to confer the bachelor's degree.

Eventually, the area's need for liberally educated personnel to staff its industries outstripped the need for teachers. In 1960, the Pennsylvania Department of Education changed the institution's name to Kutztown State College and diversified its goals toward "A center for learning for the best possible education of the youth of Pennsylvania in the arts and sciences and preparation of able and dedicated teachers."

On July 1, 1983, the institution became Kutztown University of Pennsylvania of the State System of Higher Education.

As of Fall 2018, the university enrollment was approximately 8,300 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students.

College of Business

Held primarily within the Italo deFrancesco Building, the College of Business provides Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Bachelor of Science, and Master of Business Administration degrees. The majors offered by the college of business include Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Finance/Personal Financial Planning, General Business, Human Resource Management, Management, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management. The college is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

The Kutztown University Small Business Development Center helps counsel small business located in surrounding counties, including one-on-one business consulting, professional development seminars on increasing profitability, producing business publications for self-instruction.

University facilities

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania has many special facilities, including a gallery, planetarium, observatory, LGBTQ Center, TV production facilities, a student-operated radio station, 15 student-accessible computer labs containing nearly 500 systems, cartography lab, early learning center, curriculum materials center, Pennsylvania German Heritage Center, and the Wallops Island marine science consortium facility in Virginia.

The newly constructed Academic Forum within the north campus, opened January 2007, spans 65,000 square feet (6,000 m2) and holds seven smart classrooms for some courses, seating from between 85 and 200 students each, and features a central dining area. Approximately three percent of classes, including 70 of 2,200 sections offered at the university, are taught within the Academic Forum.