University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming is the state's land-grant and flagship public university, in Laramie. It was founded in 1886, four years before statehood, and remains Wyoming's only four-year public university. The campus sits at about 7,200 feet on the high plains between the Laramie Mountains and the Medicine Bow range. Its mission combines land-grant teaching in agriculture and engineering with a statewide role in law, education, and the sciences.

Colleges include Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources, Business, Education, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Health Sciences, Law, and the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. Graduate strengths include geology and geophysics, atmospheric science, energy and petroleum, ecology, and rangeland agriculture. Research facilities include the Red Buttes environmental site and atmospheric and energy laboratories.

Enrollment is about 11,000 students, with a few thousand in graduate and professional programs. International students are a modest share. Faculty number several hundred. Alumni include former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney, former U.S. senator Alan Simpson, and sports and business figures such as Jerry Buss.

Graduate degrees include the MS, PhD, JD, and professional master's. Doctoral work is supervision-led in departments; law is a three-year professional program. The calendar is two semesters. Assistantships and land-grant fellowships are the usual support in science and engineering. Laramie is a small university town; winters are long and the campus is walkable and isolated from large cities.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Wyoming lists 1 doctoral program, in chemistry.