Utah State University

Utah State University (USU or Utah State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Logan, Utah. The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits it. USU is Utah's largest public residential campus, with nearly 20,000 students living on or near campus. As of Fall 2022, it had 27,943 enrolled students, including 24,835 undergraduates and 3,108 graduate students. Founded in 1888 as Utah's land-grant college, USU focused on science, engineering, agriculture, domestic arts, military science, and mechanic arts. It received its current name in 1957. USU has 9 colleges and offers 159 undergraduate degrees, 83 master's degrees, and 41 doctoral degrees. USU's main campus is in Logan, with statewide campuses in Brigham City, Tooele, the Uintah Basin, and 28 other locations throughout Utah. In 2010, the College of Eastern Utah in Price, Utah, joined the USU system becoming Utah State University College of Eastern Utah (USU Eastern). Throughout Utah, USU operates more than 20 distance education centers. Regional campuses, USU Eastern, and distance education centers account for 25% of the students enrolled. USU has 163,000 alumni in all 50 states and 114 countries. USU's athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Utah State Aggies. They are a member of the Mountain West Conference. The American Council on Education has classified Utah State among U.S. universities with the designation "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Utah State University is associated with 7 Rhodes Scholars, 1 Nobel Prize winner, 1 MacArthur Fellows Program inductee, 4 recipients of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, and 34 recipients of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. USU has 9 colleges and offers 159 undergraduate degrees, 83 master's degrees, and 41 doctoral degrees. On December 16, 1861, Justin Morrill (VT) introduced a bill into the U.S.