Huron University, also known as Si Tanka University at Huron, was a private university formerly located in Huron, South Dakota. It closed on April 1, 2005. What became Huron University was founded in 1883 as Presbyterian University of Southern Dakota, founded in Pierre while it was still in Dakota Territory. A year later the school became Pierre University, but was commonly known as Pierre College. On May 31, 1887 the University conferred its first degree which was the first degree to be awarded in the Dakota Territory. In 1897, the University moved to Huron and became Huron College. By 1915,... the school had become accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Two years later one of its former students won a Rhodes Scholarship and in 1932 one of its attending students also won the award. One student was George M. McCune, co-developer of the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean. By the 1980s, the school had become seriously in debt and Midwest Educational Systems Inc.
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| School type: | Private school |