Location: Logan
Role/mission: Type I research institution, offering a wide range of programs up to the doctoral level. The mission is to discover, create and transmit knowledge from undergraduate through professional levels and pursue research and development and provide extension services to other units in the state system. As Utah's land grant institution, USU has the added role of providing associate degrees and fulfilling the community college mission in underserved areas. It also takes advanced programs so teachers spend less time in classroom instruction, averaging at least 18 credit hour equivalents per year but contribute to research and scholarly activity.
Admission requirements: A college preparatory program that includes four years of English; three years of math selected from elementary algebra, geometry, intermediate algebra, trigonometry, college or advanced algebra or calculus; three science courses, at least one with a laboratory experience; one year of American history; recommended, two years in a foreign language. Also four additional courses from history, English, math (beyond intermediate algebra), laboratory science, foreign language, social science or fine arts.
Enrollment 2002-03: 22,848
Degrees granted 2001-02: Certificates, five; associate, 100; baccalaureate, 2,582; master's, 806; doctorate, 69; total 3,562.
Tuition and fees, 2002-03: Resident $2,834; nonresident $8,199 (two full semesters, undergraduate).
President Kermit Hall: "We have many very strong programs, including special education for children K-12, our aerospace research and education program, electronic engineering, our water resources program, genomics and proteonics, computer science, natural resources and agriculture and biotechnology programs that are among the best in the country. We bring $127 million in research money into the state, which puts us among the top 10 in the country in our category. We need to increase the proportion of graduate students. Now, about 15 percent of our students are in graduate courses and we would like 25 percent. We'd like to reduce the student-to-faculty ratio closer to 18-1 instead of the 25-1 we now have."