University of Kentucky
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The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky,[9] the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities (the other being Kentucky State University). It is the institution with the highest enrollment in the state, with 32,710 students in the fall of 2022.[10]
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| Latin: Universitas Kentuckiensis | |
Former names | Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky (1865–1908) State University, Lexington, Kentucky (1908–1915) State University of Kentucky (1915–1922) |
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| Motto | "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" |
| Type | Public land-grant research university |
| Established | February 22, 1865; 159 years ago (February 22, 1865) |
| Accreditation | SACS |
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| Endowment | $2.13 billion (2023)[1] |
| Budget | $5.6 billion (2022–23)[2] |
| President | Eli Capilouto |
| Provost | Robert S. DiPaola |
Administrative staff | 14,167 (2018–19)[3] |
| Students | 33,885 (Fall 2023)[4] |
| Undergraduates | 23,971 (Fall 2023)[4] |
| Postgraduates | 8,784 (Fall 2023)[4] |
| Location | , , United States 38°01′57″N 84°30′09″W |
| Campus | Large City, 784 acres (3.17 km2)[5] |
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| Newspaper | The Kentucky Kernel |
| Colors | Blue and white[6] |
| Nickname | Wildcats |
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| Website | www |
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The institution comprises 16 colleges, a graduate school, 93 undergraduate programs, 99 master programs, 66 doctoral programs, and 4 professional programs.[11][needs update] It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[12] According to the National Science Foundation, Kentucky spent $476.5 million on research and development in 2022, ranking it 61st in the nation.[13]
The University of Kentucky has seven libraries on campus.[14] The largest is the William T. Young Library, a federal depository that hosts subjects related to social sciences, humanities, and life sciences collections. Since 1997, the university has focused expenditures increasingly on research, following a compact formed by the Kentucky General Assembly. The directive mandated that the university become a "Top 20" public research institution, in terms of an overall ranking to be determined by the university itself, by 2020.[15] Two alumni from the university have won Nobel Prizes.