Founding
The University of Lowell was formed in the 1975 merger of Lowell Technological Institute, formerly Lowell Textile School (1895), and Lowell State College, formerly Lowell Normal School (1894). Their respective campuses became the North Campus and South Campus of the new institution, which was merged into the University of Massachusetts system in 1991 and renamed as the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The two original colleges had grown from humble beginnings as the Lowell Textile Institute, founded in 1895 to train technicians and managers for the textile industry, and the Lowell Normal School, founded in 1894 as a teacher-training college.
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