At the University of Kentucky, students can choose from more than 200 majors and degree programs in 16 academic or professional colleges: Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, Business and Economics, Communications and Information Studies, Dentistry, Design, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Social Work.

Enrollment at UK, including the Chandler Medical Center totaled 26,682 in fall 2005.

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• The 2005-06 freshman class included 313 Kentucky Governor’s Scholars and Governor’s School for the Arts students, 151 Legacy students, 137 high school valedictorians, 40 National Merit Scholars, and three National Achievement Scholars.

• UK offers 88 certified degree programs that lead to bachelor's degrees, and master's degrees in 93 fields, and Ph.D.s and other doctoral degrees in 60 programs.

• The University of Kentucky is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097: Telephone number 404-679-4501) to award undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees.
• In addition, the University of Kentucky has sixteen programs with accreditation in specific fields, as tracked by the U.S. Department of Education.

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• UK has been rated as one of the 100 best colleges for African-American students.

• Faculty members earned two Fulbright scholarships in 2004.
• Two Nobel Prize winners have been alumni of the university. Thomas Hunt Morgan won the prize in medicine in 1933 for his medical research in heredity and genetics, while William Nunn Lipscomb won the prize for chemistry research in 1976.
• Seven Pulitzer Prize winners are numbered among the alumni of UK's School of Journalism and Telecommunications. They are William (Bill) Niekirk, Dana Candey, Angelo Henderson, Michael York, Jim Hampton, Richard Whitt and John Ed Pearce.

• UK physicians provide medical care to patients in remote areas, utilizing a telemedicine network that connects to more than a dozen sites statewide and dental care to Kentuckians in need, particularly in 29 eastern Kentucky counties where dental sealant is applied free of charge to children's teeth to help reduce tooth decay. UK also offers Kentuckians a premiere medical research and service facility at the UK Chandler Medical Center, which recently opened a $10 million Children's Hospital that provides 12 pediatric intensive care units, 38 private acute care units, 70 pediatric specialists and 200 pediatric nurses.

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