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[[File:Main Building - University of Kentucky - DSC09119.JPG|thumb|The "Main Building" and [[University of Kentucky Cannon|cannon]]. Patterson Office Tower can be seen in the background.]] 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 [[wikipedia:Kentucky_State_University|Kentucky State University]]). It is the institution with the highest enrollment in the state, with 32,710 students as of fall 2022. 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 β 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 seven 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. Two alumni from the university have won Nobel Prizes. ==References== * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Kentucky University of Kentucky. Wikipedia] [[Category:Schools]]
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