University of Connecticut

The University of Connecticut is Connecticut's land-grant flagship public university. It opened in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School in Storrs, became Connecticut Agricultural College, and took its present name in 1939. Professional schools and regional campuses were added later, while the main campus remained in rural-suburban Tolland County. A health center and law school sit elsewhere in the state.

Units include Liberal Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, the Neag School of Education, Business, Pharmacy, Nursing, Law, Social Work, Fine Arts, and Medicine and Dental Medicine at UConn Health in Farmington. Graduate strength lies in education, pharmacy, engineering, business, biomedical science, and law. UConn Health, the Hartford law school, and institutes in human rights and materials science serve many graduate students.

About 32,000 students enroll across campuses, most of them at Storrs; several thousand are graduate and professional students, and international students from more than 100 countries number in the low thousands. Faculty number in the low thousands. Alumni include NASA astronaut Richard Mastracchio, athlete and commentator Rebecca Lobo, and writer Wally Lamb, who earned a master's degree here.

Graduate degrees include the Ph.D., academic and professional master's degrees, the J.D., M.D., and D.M.D., and combined programs. Supervision follows a committee model after coursework. The Storrs campus uses a semester calendar. Assistantships and fellowships are common in research fields. Storrs is a college town; clinical and legal training take students to Farmington and Hartford.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Connecticut lists 141 graduate programs across 39 subjects: 74 master's programs and 62 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, education and health & medical sciences. University of Connecticut holds rank 191 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.