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, the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities (the other being Kentucky State University) and the institution with the highest enrollment in the state, with 30,545 students as of fall 2019.By using our Lexington trip itinerary maker, you can arrange your visit to University of Kentucky and other attractions in Lexington.
The institution comprises 16 colleges, a graduate school, 93 undergraduate programs, 99 master programs, 66 doctoral programs, and four professional programs. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation, Kentucky spent $393 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 63rd in the nation.
The University of Kentucky has fifteen libraries on campus. The largest is the William T. Young Library, a federal depository, hosting 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.
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Nice campus. It was clean and there were lots of parking garages around campus. The building architecture was nice, and it was heavily treed. Good social scene on the perimeter of campus and was in...
Nice campus. It was clean and there were lots of parking garages around campus. The building architecture was nice, and it was heavily treed. Good social scene on the perimeter of campus and was in... more »
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This is a lovely campus. There are historic buildings as well as the brand new ones, as the University has been updated since 2014. The Visitor Center is unbelievable. It is vast, new and has such...
This is a lovely campus. There are historic buildings as well as the brand new ones, as the University has been updated since 2014. The Visitor Center is unbelievable. It is vast, new and has such... more »
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Not a terrible experience given what anyone can be sent there for. Very clean and comfortable
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Fantastic campus! Good civil engineering department because my major is civil engineering.
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