The University of Utah is located in Salt Lake City just beyond the breathtaking Wasatch Mountains. Over 24,000 undergraduates and 7,500 postgraduates study 72 majors and 90 graduate fields of study. The university’s endowment is $668 million.
Utah hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics Village, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. The university is particularly known for its contributions to biology and medicine. Its medical school implanted the first permanent artificial heart in 1982, while the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology has done groundbreaking research in epilepsy treatment via their anticonvulsant drug development program.
Utah has also contributed to genetics through multi-generational studies done in conjunction with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The university also made fundamental contributions to building the first packet-switching computer network that laid the groundwork for the Internet.
The University of Utah’s law school has also dominated state politics of decades, and was the only law school in the state until 1970.
