a public university in Madison, South Dakota, United States. The school was founded in 1881 as a normal school, or teacher training school. Education is still the university's heritage mission, but a signature mission of technology was added by the state legislature in 1984 to specialize in "programs in computer management, computer information systems, and other related undergraduate and graduate programs".
== History ==
Dakota State University was founded in 1881, eight years before South Dakota became a state. It has been through several name changes:
1881—Madison Normal School or Dakota State Normal, and was the first school dedicated to training teachers in the Dakota Territory.
1902—Madison State Normal School
1921—Eastern State Normal School was officially adopted: changed to Eastern State Teachers College in 1927.
1947—General Beadle State Teachers College, after the school's third president William Henry Harrison Beadle (1889–1905); amended to General Beadle State College in 1964.
1969—Dakota State …
