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University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati, informally Cincy) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 50,000 students, making it the second largest university in Ohio.[6] It is part of the University System of Ohio. The university's primary uptown campus and medical campus are located in the Heights and Corryville neighborhoods, with branch campuses located in Batavia and Blue Ash, Ohio.

Former names

List
  • Cincinnati College (1819–1825; 1835–1870)
  • Medical College of Ohio (1819–1896)
  • Cincinnati Law School (1833–1893)
  • Miami Medical College (1852–1909)
  • Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (1867–1955)
  • College of Music of Cincinnati (1878–1955)
  • Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (1955–1962)

Juncta Juvant (Latin)
Alta Petit (Latin)

"Strength in Unity"
"Seek the Highest"

1819 (1819)

$1.83 billion (2023)[1]

Neville G. Pinto

Valerio Ferme[2]

3,696 Full-time,
2,852 Part-time (2023)[1]

4,615 Full-time,
307 Part-time (2023)[1]

50,921 (2023)[1]

38,748 (2023)[1]

12,173 (2023)[1]

Large city[4], Main campus: 202 acres (0.82 km2)
Uptown campus (Main and Medical): 194 acres (0.79 km2)
All campuses: 473 acres (1.91 km2)

The News Record

Red and black[5]
   

The university has 14 constituent colleges, with programs in architecture, business, education, engineering, humanities, the sciences, law, music, and medicine. The medical college includes a leading teaching hospital and several biomedical research laboratories, with developments made including a live polio vaccine and diphenhydramine.[7] UC was also the first university to implement a co-operative education (co-op) model.[8]


The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is classified as "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[9]


UC's athletic teams are called the Cincinnati Bearcats and compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I as a member of the Big 12 Conference.

(UCBA) (regional campus, located in Blue Ash, Ohio). Formerly known as Raymond Walters College.

Blue Ash College

(CLER) (regional campus, located in Batavia, Ohio); included UC East (located in a renovated Ford plant in Batavia, OH, this facility served as expansion space for Clermont College and select programs in the College of Nursing and the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, as well as the BTAS in Applied Administration[28] program. Due to low enrollment, UC East closed in 2020.)

Clermont College

Academic rankings

62 (tie) of 180

320 of 500

142 (tie) of 394

355 of 400

201 (tie) of 901

691 (tie) of 1401

203 (tie) of 2165

The (CAHS). The School of Social Work is within the college.

College of Allied Health Sciences

The (A&S), the largest college, has 21 departments, eight co-op programs, and several interdisciplinary programs.

University of Cincinnati College of Arts and Sciences

The (LCB) is the university's business school.

Carl H. Lindner College of Business

The (CCM) is the university's performing arts school.

College-Conservatory of Music

The (DAAP).

College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning

(CECH)

College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services

The (CEAS). The College of Applied Science (CAS) and the College of Engineering merged to form this new college in 2009. Winston Koch invented the first electronic organ at the College of Engineering.[46] The CAS was initially organized as the Ohio Mechanics Institute (OMI) in 1828; it merged with UC in 1969 and was renamed the OMI College of Applied Science in 1979.[47]

College of Engineering and Applied Science

The Graduate School, a collaborative unit of all the university's colleges responsible for providing centralized administrative services for all postgraduate programs.

The is the university's law school; it is the alma mater of William Howard Taft, who also served as the college's dean when it integrated with the University of Cincinnati in 1896. A statue of the former president stands near the campus law building.

College of Law

The is the university's medical school;[48] it includes a leading teaching hospital and several biomedical research laboratories. In the 1950s Albert Sabin developed the live polio vaccine at the College of Medicine. Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) was developed here by George Rieveschl in 1946. UC also established the first emergency medicine residency program. In 2008, it became the first medical college in the country to implement the multiple mini interview system for its admission process.[7][49][50]

College of Medicine

The was founded in 1889.[51]

College of Nursing

The was founded in 1850.

James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy

Library (main library)

Walter C. Langsam

Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library

Archives and Rare Books Library

Ralph E. Oesper Chemistry-Biology Library

John Miller Burnam Classical Library

Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library

Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP)

College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services

College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) Library

Geology-Mathematics-Physics Library

Robert S. Marx Law Library

Clermont College Library

Blue Ash College Library

UC Baseball Stadium

Cincinnati Bearcats baseball

Armory Fieldhouse

Fifth Third Arena

Nippert Stadium

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Official website

Cincinnati Athletics website

FBI

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