The most residential of the nine Massachusetts state colleges, Westfield State (WSC) enjoys a 227-acre campus in the Berkshires amid beautifully landscaped grounds and is framed by rows of stately pine trees. A four-year, coeducational, comprehensive public college, Westfield State College was established in 1839, in
Barre, as the first public, coeducational normal school in the United States, free to the citizens of the Commonwealth. In 1844, the school moved to
Westfield. In the 1930s, the Normal School became a State Teachers College, and a four-year course of study was offered, leading to the bachelor of science in education. In the 1960s the the bachelor of arts degree was offered in other fields. WSC now offers the Master's Degree as well as the post-Master's Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study.