Prospective Students
Welcome to the University of Kentucky (UK), the flagship university of the state of Kentucky. A leading public research university, UK is on an exciting path toward becoming a Top 20 public research institution -- one that’s conducting groundbreaking research in cancer, Parkinson’s disease and diabetes. Yet UK remains one of the most affordable major universities in the United States.
If you are looking for a university that can help you achieve your educational and career goals, the University of Kentucky offers you many unique opportunities.
- More than 200 different majors offered, 70 nationally ranked academic programs
- A University Scholars Program that allows you to earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in 4 to 5 years
- An Undergraduate Research Program designed to help you jump-start your career
- A campus of 27,000 students, including students from over 100 countries from around the world
- An average class size of 25 with a student-faculty ratio of 16:1
- The distinction of being one of only seven schools in the U.S. with prominent professional and health programs – medicine, pharmacy, nursing, architecture, law and agriculture
- More than 350 student organizations
- UK’s Honors Program offers small seminar-style classes, in which students acquire essential critical and analytical skills as they discuss and examine the ideas that shape today’s world
- Tuition that is highly competitive compared with other benchmark institutions
- UK was recently ranked among the top 50 institutions in the United States by US News and World Report.