University of Louisville is a public institution that was founded in
1798.
It
has a total undergraduate enrollment of 15,957,
its setting is urban,
and the campus size is 345 acres.
It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar.
University of Louisville's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges
is National Universities,
161.
Its in-state tuition and fees are $10,432 (2014-15); out-of-state
tuition and fees are $24,320 (2014-15).
The University of Louisville is located in Kentucky on the banks of the
Ohio River, about 100 miles from both Indianapolis and Cincinnati.
Students at U of L, as it is known, can major in more than 170 areas of
study, including master's programs in the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law and in the fields of business and medicine.
Outside the classroom, University of Louisville students can join more
than 400 campus organizations, pledge with about 30 fraternities and
sororities and play intramural sports. More serious athletes can try out
for the Louisville Cardinals varsity teams, which compete in the NCAA
Division I Atlantic Coast Conference.
On campus, U of L students can also check out the art museum,
planetarium and Auguste Rodin's original sculpture of The Thinker. In
the city of Louisville, U of L students can go to the zoo, the Kentucky
Shakespeare Festival and the famous Kentucky Derby horse race. Notable
University of Louisville alumni include radio journalist Bob Edwards and
the late Frank Neuhauser, who won the first National Spelling Bee in
1925 when he successfully spelled the word "gladiolus."
The University of Louisville is
intent on becoming a premier metropolitan research university, known for
improving the lives of the citizens of Louisville and Kentucky.
Ranked
among America's top 12 "good neighbors" in a survey by the Coalition of
Urban and Metropolitan Universities, UofL emphasis the Signature
Partnership initiative, a program designed to enhance the quality of
life and economic opportunity for individuals and families who live in
Louisville's urban core. The goal is to work with various community
partners to improve their educational, health, economic and social
status. Working closely with community residents, the Jefferson County
Public Schools, Louisville Metro Government, Metro United Way, the Urban
League, faith-based organizations and many others, the university has
coordinated and enhanced existing programs and launched new programs
designed to eliminate or reduce disparities in that area. UofL is
drawing upon the expertise and energy of every school and college to
deal with the quality of life issues affecting the community. UofL also
serves as an economic engine for Louisville. An independent study showed
that between 2003 and 2009 UofL-related investments resulted in the
creation of 9,764 jobs - or about 40 percent of the new net jobs created
in Kentucky during that time. UofL activities also added $1.7 billion
to the commonwealth's economic output. The university's strategy
includes taking underperforming assets and finding ways to help them
reach their economic potential. This tactic is important for the
university's economic well-being in a period when Kentucky has cut
funding to state universities 14 times in 14 years. A significant
portion of UofL's Shelby Campus is being developed into the Shelbyhurst
Office and Research Park. The first building has been completed and is
100 percent occupied; a second building is under construction. Revenue
generated from ShelbyHurst Office and Research Park will support UofL's
academic and research missions. UofL also is developing property in
downtown Louisville at its Health Sciences campus and has acquired
property adjacent to its Belknap Campus. That property will be home to
the Belknap Engineering and Applied Science Research Park. The park
will include the Institute for Product Realization and Innovation a
collaboration between industry and UofL to quickly create innovative
products and test them in the marketplace. While that development is in
the planning stages, a development in downtown Louisville is under way.
NUCLEUS, Kentucky's Life Science and Innovation Center, provides
business management and consulting services to support entrepreneurs
engaged in life sciences. When it is completed, the research complex
will house multiple facilities in close proximity to expedite
collaboration and shared expertise among researchers and companies. In
addition to the support UofL provides the commonwealth for improving
infrastructure, UofL also started the Cardinal Covenant program - the
first program of its kind in Kentucky - to help low-income families fund
a college education. Students leave the program debt free and with a
college education - ready to enter Kentucky's workforce. More than 300
students are currently in the program, and more than a third of those
have a gpa of 3.0 or higher. Helping students reach their potential
takes many forms of support. Over the past decade, incoming UofL
students have been increasingly better prepared than those who have come
before them. Starting in 2000, the university created an office to help
them apply for national and international teaching and research
scholarships. The office has been so successful in identifying excellent
scholars that UofL students and graduates received 75 Fulbright
scholarships between 2003 and 2013, ranking UofL among the top-producing
universities in the nation. Since 2009, UofL students also have
captured prestigious Rhodes, Truman and Goldwater scholarships, among
others.
