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The University of Utah is a major urban state university with significant programs of sponsored research and of graduate, professional, and undergraduate education in 15 colleges and professional schools and its authorized degree programs, including law and medical schools.

As a preeminent research and teaching institution, the University of Utah is ranked among the top 100 universities in the world. It cultivates an academic environment in which the highest standards of intellectual integrity and scholarship are practiced. Students learn from and collaborate with faculty who are at the forefront of their disciplines, among them Dr. Mario Capecchi, Utah’s first Nobel Prize winner. An engine for economic growth in the region, the University is ranked first in the country along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in creating new startup companies from research-based inventions. Many of Utah’s premier cultural and arts institutions, such as Ballet West, were started here, and the U remains the home of the Natural History Museum of Utah, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and Red Butte Garden, the state’s botanical garden and arboretum.