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In 1871 the university began as Oshkosh State Normal School. The university was Wisconsin 's third teacher-training school. Oshkosh Normal began the first state normal school in the United States to have a kindergarten. From 1927 to 1951 the university was called Oshkosh State Teachers College. The university was called Wisconsin State College Oshkosh from 1951 to 1964 and Wisconsin State University Oshkosh from 1964 to 1971 . Today, it offers seven baccalaureate and seven masters degrees in 48 programs spanning four colleges. The college is widely known to be strong in nursing, business, teaching, and fine arts. Enrollment in the fall of 2002 was 11,245. SPORTS The recent Titan baseball program has frequently been in the Division III World Series. There have been 8 baseball players to play in Major League Baseball . The school's gymnastics program also won multiple NCAA National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II-III and NAIA National Association Of Intercollegiate Athletics men's gymnastics championships before the sport was dropped at small-college levels. STUDENT MEDIA The school's newspaper is the Advance-Titan, and it owns a radio station, WRST-FM 90.3, with the call letters standing for "Radio Station of the Titans." The station carries Wisconsin Public Radio and student programming. NOTABLE ALUMNI
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