St. Cloud State University is a four-year public university founded in 1869 on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. The university is the largest school in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system which is the largest single provider of higher education in Minnesota. With more than 17,000 students, St. Cloud State has Minnesota's second-highest public university enrollment. St. Cloud State has more than 100,000 alumni worldwide; Notable alumni include John Stumpf, president and CEO of Wells Fargo & Company, and James B. Bullard, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
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