University of Arizona

The University of Arizona is Arizona's land-grant flagship, founded in Tucson in 1885 before statehood. It grew from a territorial school of agriculture and mines into a public research university with a main campus north of downtown Tucson and health-sciences sites in Tucson and Phoenix. Agricultural extension, optical and planetary science, and statewide medical education remain core public missions.

Academics sit in more than a dozen colleges, including Science, Engineering, Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Eller College of Management, Law, and Medicine. Graduate research is tied to the Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Steward Observatory, the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, the BIO5 Institute, and University of Arizona Health Sciences. Biosphere 2, north of Tucson, is used in earth-systems graduate training.

About 50,000 students enroll, of whom roughly 10,000 are in graduate or professional programs. International students number in the several thousands and come from more than 100 countries. Faculty number about 3,000. Notable alumni include Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, actor Garry Shandling, and journalist Geraldo Rivera.

Graduate degrees include the Ph.D., M.S. and M.A., M.B.A., J.D., M.D., and professional master's in optical sciences, public health, and hydrology. Students complete coursework and a dissertation or professional sequence on a semester calendar. Teaching and research assistantships are common in STEM. Tucson's desert campus and nearby mountain ranges shape year-round student life.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Arizona lists 33 graduate programs across 26 subjects: 7 master's programs and 24 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in earth & environmental sciences, mathematics and biology. University of Arizona holds rank 124 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.