Founded in 1898, Husson was originally named Shaw School of Business and was located on the second floor of a building in downtown Bangor. Enrollment was low until after World War II, when its reputation grew as a business school. In 1953 the Maine Legislature authorized the school, now known as Husson College, to grant Bachelor of Science degrees. It became a university in 2008. Today the University has two colleges, and four independent schools: the College of Business, the College of Health and Education, the School of Pharmacy, the School of Graduate Studies, the School of Science and Humanities, and the New England School of Communications.
