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Medicine ranked by pharmacy and cancer.
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Top 10 medical schools for training in Tuition and fees on the Lexington
primary care in the U. S. for the sixth Campus for the 199697 academic year:
consecutive year. 0 Undergraduate state residents: $2,340 per
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UK’s Cooperative Extension Service Undergraduate Admissions 257-2000
which in a year will make more than 5 _ _
million service contacts in the State. Graduate Adm'sslons nun-un- 257-4613
the men’s basketball team, 1996 NCAA Public Relations 257-3303
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prefident Of the UmVerSltY- O UK’S library system now has 26 mllhon the fiVC COlngCS Of th€ UK Chandler Medical
Students have 8 4 majors from which to 0 The UK library ranks 49th among research 0 UK educates 69% of all students going-to
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choose in the 16 academic colleges: in the state
Arts nd S . 0 A new $58 million library, the William T. '
Aa . lttsiences Young Library, is under construction and ' UK consistently ranks at the top nationally
E gricu tire will open in the fall of 1997 on the campus in the number of National Merit Scholars in
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Human Environmental Sciences Faculty 0 There are.125 Kentucky Governor’s Scholars
Communication and Information Studies . 1,796 full-time in Lexington. and 118 high school valedictorians in the fall
Social Work 1 _ . 1996 freshman class.
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Architecture ,128 in the Community College System. . The average ACT score for incoming
Fine Arts ' 97% of the faculty in Lexington have the freshmen is 24.8 _ four points above the
Law highest degree attainable in their field. national average.
1516623111 e ° UK faculty generated more {11311315114 million 0 For extracurricular activities, students have '
Nursinrgy 111 grants, COHUHCTS 311d glftS dunng 1995-96 - more than 250 organizations in which to
Allied Health Professions PamCIPate- .
Pharmacy Students 0 5,200 students live on campus in one of the
Graduate Education ° $0333 at UK in Lexmgton is more Kigffiggiitcse halls and the Greg Page EL;
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0 96 master’s and 60 doctoral programs. . Enrollment in the UK“Community College 0 There are 25 fraternities and 17 sororities O
0 More than 5,000 graduate students. System iS about 43,600. on the campus “1 Lexmgton. %
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