Lowell Technological Institute

Plans for the school were started when the Massachusetts State Legislature passed a law granting $25,000 to each of the four major textile cities in the state as long as they contributed to the building of a school of textiles in Lowell.

[1] The school originally opened in three rented rooms on Middle Street in downtown Lowell.

The college offered three year diplomas in cotton or wool manufacture, design, or textile chemistry and dyeing.

[2] In 1953, President Martin Lydon expanded the curriculum to include programs in plastics, leather, paper, and electronics technology, increased the liberal arts, and renamed the school the Lowell Technological Institute.

[3] In 1972, a feasibility study was conducted on merging the school with the nearby Lowell State College.