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About the University of Wyoming
Founded in 1886, UW is the only public university in Wyoming, providing baccalaureate, graduate and professional education, research and outreach. It enrolls more than 10,500 undergraduate and graduate students, and employs over 2,800 benefitted faculty and staff members.
UW combines major-university benefits and small-school advantages, offering 200 programs of study, an outstanding faculty, and world-class research and teaching facilities, all set against the backdrop of Wyoming's beautiful landscapes. The main campus is in Laramie, a community of approximately 31,000 sandwiched between the Medicine Bow and Laramie mountain ranges two hours north of Denver.
The university also maintains the UW-Casper and Agricultural Extension Offices scattered throughout the state's 23 counties and on the Wind River Indian Reservation. UW has strong working relationships with Wyoming's eight community colleges and economic development groups in key areas of the state, as well as the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center. It is a Carnegie R1 doctoral/research university.
The state of Wyoming invests strongly in higher education, providing the highest amount of state support per student in the nation. Consequently, UW has one of the lowest in-state undergraduate tuition rates among the nation's public doctoral universities. The university also benefits from a privately funded endowment of over $800 million.
