An award-winning regional public university, St. Cloud State is located about an hour northwest of Minneapolis, along the oak-crowned west bank of the Mississippi River. The 100-acre campus is between downtown St. Cloud and the Beaver Islands, a group of more than 30 islands that form a natural maze for a two-mile stretch of the river. St. Cloud State has more than 10,000 students with a network of more than 125,000 alumni worldwide. Learn more about St. Cloud State at stcloudstate.edu/about.