The University of Utah was founded on February 28, 1850, it offers 75 undergraduate degree programs , more than 50 teaching majors and minors, and 96 graduate majors. The Carnegie Foundation classifies University of Utah as one of 50 comprehensive Research Universities from among 3,700 U.S. institutions.

You are definitely in for a surprise if you happen to return to the U this fall, as there are some changes in the campus area. If you are coming to U for the first time, then, there cant be a better time than this to join U.

Utah University has been once again highly praised by US News & World Report and a host of other publications. So its about time that the rest of the world is catching on to what we have known for a long time, that the U is one of the best public institutions in the country.

As you come to campus you will see the new construction coming up at the Marriott Library . We are renovating the structure, when the project will be done the renovated building and its more useful collections will be the envy of higher education as one of the most advanced facilities of its kind. We have just opened Spence & Cleone Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, the new Moran Eye Center (work is still on), the Warnock Engineering Building and an addition to the Chemistry Building to house a nuclear magnetic resonance facility enabling scientists of varied disciplines to examine molecules.

We welcome Raymond Tymas-Jones is our new dean of the College of Fine Arts and associate vice-president of the arts, Kirk Jowers as the new director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, new library Director Joyce Ogden, and a host of others. With more than 15,000 faculty and staff, who are one of the most insightful and talented personals in their crafts, bringing their knowledge to create productive base for bold new ideas.

Even though the University of Utah might be undergoing a period of strong growth and change. But if you move across the campus and see the evolving state of the U, you will come to know that University of Utah possesses a serious respect for its history and tradition along with an eye towards the future.