Bowie State University is an outgrowth of the first school opened in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 9, 1865, by the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of Colored People, which was organized on November 28, 1864, to engage in its self appointed mission on a statewide basis. The first normal school classes sponsored by the Baltimore Association were held in the African Baptist Church, located on the corner of Calvert and Saratoga Street for the relocation of its normal school to train Negro teachers. In fall 1992, Bowie State University took a distinctive step into the international market by becoming the first Historically Black University in the nation to expand its satellite and continuing education programs overseas. In partnership with the University of Maryland University College, Bowie State now offer graduate programs in Management Information Systems and Administrative Management to military personnel stationed in Europe and Asia.