Bemidji State University

Bemidji State University (BSU) is a public state university in Bemidji, Minnesota, the United States, located on the shores of Lake Bemidji. Founded as a preparatory institution for teachers in 1919, it provides higher education to north-central Minnesota. It is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

Bemidji State University offers 47 different areas of study. Many of its courses are available to be taken online. BSU offers the only BFA in professional and creative writing in the Minnesota State system.

The program includes a minor and certificates in electronic writing, consisting of courses in weblogs, wikis, web content writing, web design, digital rhetoric, and teaching writing with technology. Bemidji State also has a 96% rate of social work majors passing their licensing exams compared to the 76% rate for the entire state. In addition, Sattgast Hall is home to a number of natural sciences programs and pre-professional studies.

For 16 years BSU has had a relationship with Liaoning University, a university in China. Each year a professor from Liaoning University goes to BSU to teach Chinese and each summer BSU students participate in "Sino-Summer", a month-long visit to China with half of the time spent at Liaoning University and half touring other parts of China including Beijing, Xi'an and Guilin. In 2007, for the first time in almost two decades, no group of BSU students went to China through the Sino-Summer program.

The school sports teams are called the Beavers and compete in NCAA Division II, except in men's and women's ice hockey. The Beavers are members of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference in most sports, with both hockey teams compete in the WCHA at the Division I level.