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Ball State University
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Ball State University

BiographyBall State University (Ball State, State or BSU) is a public research university in Muncie, Indiana. The location of today's Ball State University had its start in 1899 as a private university called the Eastern Indiana Normal School. On July 25, 1917, the Ball brothers, local industrialists and founders of the Ball Corporation, bought the Indiana Normal Institute from foreclosure.