THE  UNIVERSITY  OF   NEVADA,  RENO  (UNR)

The University of Nevada, Reno, is the State’s Historic Flagship Institution
of Higher Education.

The University has a student enrollment of more than 16,000, including about 3,200
graduate students, and a total annual budget of nearly $500 million.

The University provides a broad range of programs and degree options, ranging from
Baccalaureate degrees in more than 75 Disciplines to more than 100 Graduate-Degree
programs at the Master’s and Doctoral level.

The University of Nevada, Reno’s School of Medicine is a vital component of the University,
with campuses in both of Nevada’s major urban centers, Las Vegas and Reno, and a health
network that extends out to much of rural Nevada.

The University of Nevada was founded in 1874 in the town of Elko, as the state’s first
institution of higher education.  Relocated to Reno in 1887, the University remained the
state’s only institution of higher education for the next 75 years.

The first building on the Reno campus, 'Morrill Hall', is still in use today, and the campus
has grown from a small cluster of buildings surrounding a central quadrangle (modeled
after Thomas Jefferson’s design for the University of Virginia), to a 250- acre site, just north
of Downtown Reno.

The University of Nevada, Reno, is one of the Eight institutions of higher education
governed by the Nevada System of Higher Education.

The University has 76 undergraduate degree programs, and 103 Graduate Degree Programs,
(66 Master’s and 37 Doctoral programs) from which students may choose.  New Majors,
approved recently, include: Atmospheric Sciences, Environmental Science, Forest and
Rangeland Management, Wildlife Ecology, and Computer and Information Engineering.

The University is in the process of adding new Ph.D. programs in: Mathematics, Statistics,
and Geography. also a new interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program in: Environmental
Studies.

As the State’s ‘Land-Grant Institution’, The University of Nevada, Reno, is mandated by
the State Constitution to offer instruction in: Agriculture, Mechanical Arts, (Engineering),
and Mining.  

Its Agricultural, Liberal Arts, and Mining programs spawned the earliest academic colleges
at the University, later followed by Education, Engineering, and Business, in the 1950's;
Medicine, in the late 1960's;  Journalism, in the 1980's; and Human and Community Sciences
in the 1990's.  

The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension was created in 1914, as a part of the
Agriculture college, a result of the federal 'Smith-Lever Act', and then was made into an
Independent College in 1993.

More recently, the University realigned its College of Arts and Science into separate Colleges
of Liberal Arts, and of Science, the latter of which includes the University’s Mining programs.

Coupled with its status as a 'Land-Grant Institution', the University of Nevada necessarily
has a statewide mission, and boasts programs and activities in all 17 counties of the state.  
It has more than 700 employees outside the Reno area, most of them in Las Vegas.  It plays
a critical role in the promotion of health throughout the state through its Schools of:
Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health.