Information: University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, the state's major urban university, offers graduate students a comprehensive range of programs, collaboration with faculty in pacesetting research, and the opportunity to learn from colleagues drawn from around the world. Excellence is the hallmark of the University's graduate programs and faculty.

An internationally renowned faculty drives research achievements in many fields. Development of supergrains and techniques for successful bone marrow and organ transplants are some examples of the pioneering research accomplished by University faculty. The University is also the home of the Microelectronic and Information Sciences Center, the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, and the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.

The University comprises a network of five campuses throughout the state-in the Twin Cites, Duluth, Morris and Crookston-and numerous research stations, where experiments are conducted in agriculture, biology, forestry, horticulture, and natural history.

The Twin Cities campus, by far the largest in the University system, is really two campuses-one in Minneapolis and one in St. Paul.

The Minneapolis campus is further divided by the Mississippi River into east and west banks, each with a distinctive character. On the East Bank are the older buildings and grassy, treelined central mall of a traditional college campus. Here are the Institute of Technology, the old and new chemistry buildings, the science libraries, and many departments of the College of Liberal Arts, as well as a new health sciences complex and two prize-winning underground buildings, one three and the other seven stories below grade.

The West Bank features several high-rise structures and most of the University's newest buildings, housing the Law School, the School of Music, and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Also on the West Bank are the main library, the Carlson School of Management, studio arts and theater buildings and the remainder of the liberal arts departments.

The St. Paul campus is situated in the heart of a pleasant residential neighborhood, lending it more of a small-town than urban feeling. Located here are the Colleges of Agriculture, Biological Sciences, Natural Resources, Home Economics, and Veterinary Medicine. To support study and research in these areas, the St. Paul campus houses animal barns, veterinary hospitals, and fields for experimental crops.