Ranked among America’s Top 20 public universities by US News and World Report, UConn offers over 100 undergrad and 80 postgraduate degree programmes Founded in 1881, University of Connecticut (UConn) is a top-ranked public research university with an aggregate enrolment of 32,027 students instructed by 4,624 faculty. The US News and World Report in its Best Colleges Rankings 2017, ranks UConn #60 overall and #20 among public universities countrywide. Money Magazine and Princeton Review rank the university #18 for value for money. Moreover, UConn is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and is a member of Universitas 21, an elite international network of 24 research-intensive universities. Sprawled across a 4,000-acre main campus in Storrs and four regional campuses in the state of Connecticut, the university’s 14 colleges — agriculture, health and natural resources, business, dental medicine, Neag education, engineering, fine arts, law, liberal arts and sciences, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, Ratcliffe Hicks School of Agriculture and social work — offer over 100 undergraduate and 80 postgrad degree programmes. UConn traces its origin to the Storrs Agricultural School, named after brothers Charles and Augustus Storrs who donated 170 acres of farmland to the school. In 1893, the school became a land grant college and was renamed University of Connecticut in 1939. Over the next decade, social work, nursing, and graduate programmes were introduced, and the schools of law and pharmacy were added to the university. Storrs. A quiet college town in Mansfield county, Storrs (pop.15,344) is a 30-minute drive from Hartford, the administrative capital of Connecticut; and 90 minutes from Boston. The town is economically and demographically dominated by U Conn and the associated Connecticut Repertory Theatre. Just steps away from the main campus is the recently inaugurated Storrs Center, a mixed-use urban hub hosting an eclectic mix of restaurants, shops, offices, homes, walkways and green spaces. Storrs has an American continent climate with severe winters and warm summers. Temperatures in winter range from 1.7°C to -7.3°C and 14.6°C to 25.4°C in summer. Campus facilities. The university’s main 4,107 acre-campus in Storrs offers extensive academic, residential, sports and recreational facilities, and hosts 47 buildings listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. With its golden-domed cupola, the Wilbur Cross building is the university landmark housing the financial aid, housing and registrar’s offices. Other campus landmarks include the Connecticut Repertory Theatre with its three venues — the 486-seat Harriet S. Jorgensen, the 241-seat Nafe Katter and the 116-seat studio theatres; the William Benton Museum of Art and the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry. UConn is the sole varsity in the US offering a Masters degree in puppetry. UConn’s ten libraries contain the largest public research collection in the state. The main Homer D. Babbidge Library offers access to 2.5 million print volumes, 2,500 print periodicals, 35,000 electronic journals, 2.8 million units of microfilm and 180,000 maps. In the tradition of American universities sports facilities are extensive. They include the Rentschler Field (football), Harry A. Gampel Pavilion (basketball and volleyball), XL…
