University of Minnesota

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About University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota (UM) traces its roots to a college preparatory school established in the city of Minneapolis seven years before Minnesota entered the Union in 1858. This school closed its doors during the Civil War, but reopened in 1867.

In 1869, the prep school was reconfigured as an institution of higher learning. Today, that modest college has grown into one of the largest universities in the country, with a student population of around 52,000.

During the 1880s, UM expanded to another campus located in St. Paul, the state capital and the city immediately adjacent to Minneapolis to the east. However, the Minneapolis campus remains by far the larger of the two, sprawling nowadays astride both banks of the Mississippi River as it flows through the heart of the city.

Due to its physical bi-location, albeit under a single administration, the school is now officially known as “University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.” It has become the flagship of a far-flung University of Minnesota System, which also includes colleges located in Crookston, Rochester, Duluth, and Morris.

Some 26 Minnesota-connected people have won the Nobel Prize, including the:

Physicists, Ernest Lawrence, Walter Brattain, & John Bardeen
Chemists, Melvin Calvin, William Lipscomb, & Brian Kobilka
Physiologists, Edward Kendall & Louis Ignarro
Economists, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Leonid Hurwicz & Robert Shiller
Novelist, Saul Bellow and the songwriter, Bob Dylan for literature

Other famous Minnesota alumni and faculty include:

Actors, Henry Fonda, E.G. Marshall & Jessica Lange
Novelist, Robert Penn Warren
Poets, Allen Tate, James Wright & John Berryman
Folklorist, Jack Zipes
Author and radio host, Garrison Keillor
Op-ed columnists, Carl Rowan & Thomas Friedman
Television journalists, Eric Sevareid & Harry Reasoner
Plant geneticist, John Sanford
Primatologist, David Premack
Psychologist, B.F. Skinner
Philosophers, Herbert Feigl, Hector-Neri Castañeda, Fred Dretske, Keith Lehrer, & Ernest Lepore
US senator and anti–Vietnam War activist, Eugene McCarthy
US Supreme Court Justice, Warren Burger
Civil rights activists, Roy Wilkins & Whitney Young
Vice presidents of the US, Hubert Humphrey & Walter Mondale

According to Wikipedia, The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Twin Cities campus comprises locations in Minneapolis and Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, approximately apart. The Twin Cities campus is the oldest and largest in the University of Minnesota system and has the ninth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,376 students at the start of the 2021–22 academic year. It is the flagship institution of the University of Minnesota System, and is organized into 19 colleges, schools, and other major academic units.

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University of Minnesota Admissions, Retention, and Graduation Information

Annual Applications	Acceptance	Graduation Rate	Median SAT Score	Median ACT Score
35,905	73%	84%	1350	28

How Much Does University of Minnesota Cost To Attend?

Tuition (in-state)	Fees (in-state)
$13,532	$1,722

How Much Do University of Minnesota Graduates Make?

If you graduate from University of Minnesota, then you can expect to earn an average of $61,200 per year. You also have a 92% chance of being employed after 10 years.

University of Minnesota's Demographics

Demographic data is for full-time, on-campus students.

Student Body	Under-Grads	Graduates
41,865	33,791	8,074

Where is University of Minnesota?

University of Minnesota is located at 100 Church Street SE, Minneapolis MN 55455-0213

How Safe is University of Minnesota?

Minneapolis has a violent crime rate of less than .01% and a property crime rate of less than .01%.

What Is University of Minnesota Known For?

University of Minnesota is known for it's academic work in the following disciplines: