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Northeastern State University
Type Public
Established 1851
President Steve Turner
All campus enrollment 9,769
Academic staff
325
Address
600 N. Grand Ave, Tahlequah, OK 74464
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Campus 200 acres (0.81 km2) (Tahlequah)
Colors NSU Green and Silver          
Nickname RiverHawks
Affiliations Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Mascot Rowdy the RiverHawk

Northeastern State University (NSU) is a public university with its main campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States, at the foot of the Ozark Mountains. Tahlequah is also home to the capital of the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma. The university also has two other campuses in Muskogee and Broken Arrow. Northeastern is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of Oklahoma as well as one of the oldest institutions of higher learning west of the Mississippi River.

History

Although a school was founded on May 7, 1851, as the Cherokee National Female Seminary, it was not until Oklahoma became a state that the school now known as Northeastern State University opened.

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