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The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky , [ 9 ] the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities (the other being Kentucky State University ).
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is a medical school based in Lexington, KY at the University of Kentucky's Chandler Medical Center.. The College operates four campuses; in addition to the main hub in Lexington, there are two full campuses serving the Bowling Green and Northern Kentucky regions, and an Eastern Kentucky rural medicine training site in Morehead.
In the fall of 1920, Sgt. John J. Kennedy was hired as band director, and under his direction the band became known as "The Best Band in Dixie". In the late 1920s, Elmer "Bromo" Sulzer founded the all-female "Co-Ed band", for many years the only such band in the US. W. Harry Clarke was director from 1968 to 1989.
University of Kentucky's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 5.4%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2020 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.
The 2025 Kentucky Wildcats football team will represented the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season.
The 2024–25 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represents the University of Kentucky during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Wildcats, founding members of the Southeastern Conference, play their home games at Rupp Arena and are led by Mark Pope in his first season as head coach for the Wildcats.
William Benjamin Munson, the University of Kentucky's first graduate in 1869, studied engineering and became a prosperous entrepreneur. John Wesley Gunn, Class of 1890, earned the first awarded engineering degree.
The College of Arts and Science was established on April 14, 1908, by James K. Patterson, the first president of the University of Kentucky, as part of Patterson's initiative to create a college that would provide solid education in the sciences, arts, and humanities.