Norfolk State University (NSU)

Norfolk State University (NSU) is an open four-year, coed, aesthetic sciences, generally dark college situated in Norfolk, Virginia. The University is a part school of Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the Virginia High-Tech Partnership.The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has certify Norfolk State to recompense partner, baccalaureate, expert and doctoral degrees. As of now, Norfolk State offers two doctorate and 15 graduate degrees, incorporating graduate degree programs in Optical Engineering, Computer Science, and Criminal Justice. The school additionally offers 36 college degrees, with another degree being offered in Optical Engineering.Located on the previous site of the 50-section of land (202,343 m2) Memorial Park Golf Course, which the city of Norfolk sold to the school for one dollar, the grounds now incorporates 134 sections of land (0.5 km2) of area and 31 structures. The Joseph G. Echols Memorial Hall is a huge wellbeing, physical training, and ROTC complex with a seating limit of 7,500. Different offices incorporate a 30,000-seat football stadium; a TV studio and radio station, an African workmanship exhibition hall, and a multi-reason performing expressions focus. Research offices incorporate an existence sciences working with a planetarium and a materials research wing with gem development, natural combination, laser spectroscopy, and attractive reverberation hardware. In September 2009, the New Student Center office opened. The three story building, which incorporates a diversion room, an eating territory, another book shop, a health focus (work-out office), understudy lounges, and managerial workplaces, denote the first of two noteworthy activities for NSU. Development on a New Nursing and General Classroom Building is in progress and planned to open in 2014, . Other late development on the grounds incorporates the new police headquarters (2007), the Marie V. McDemmond Center for Applied Research (2006), and the Spartan Suites Apartments (2005), and best in class Library (2012).The college offers sorted out and casual co-curricular exercises including 63 understudy associations, administration workshops, intramural exercises, understudy distributions and understudy internships.Norfolk State sports groups take an interest in NCAA Division I (Football Championship Subdivision for all games including football) in

the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). Norfolk State was once in the past an individual from the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference (1953–1960) and the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1962–1996). The 2011–12 Norfolk State Spartans men's ball group won the 2012 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament title which gave them the meeting's programmed offer in the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, the school's first ever appearance in the competition. The Spartans, a 15 seed, crushed the #2 seeded Missouri Tigers in the second cycle, 86-84. This triumph was just the fifth time in NCAA Tournament history that a 15 seed vanquished a 2 seed, with the last coming in 2001 by MEAC in-state rival Hampton.The Marching Spartan Legion Band performs at grounds occasions and amid Norfolk State football games. They were highlighted entertainers in the Honda Battle of the Bands in 2007 and 2008.