GENERAL INFORMATION

Phone: 520-621-2211
Founded: 1885
Size: 343 Acres
Enrollment: 35,000
Faculty & Staff: 12,500

The University offers 142 undergraduate programs, 133 master's, 91 doctoral, 3 professional and 7 specialist programs.

COLLEGES
Arts and Sciences with faculties of Fine Arts, Humanities, Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences; Agriculture; Architecture; Business and Public Administration; Education; Engineering; Law; Medicine; Mines; Nursing; Pharmacy; and the Graduate College. Schools are Health Related Professionals, family and Consumer Resources, Military Science and Aerospace Studies, Music, Graduate Library and Renewable Natural Resources.

CONTINUING EDUCATION
The University of Arizona Division of Continuing Education offers hundreds of credit and non-credit courses, workshops, conferences and other special programs both on and off the campus for people of all ages.

HEALTH SCIENCES
University Medical Center and the state's only College of Medicine are the heart of the Arizona Health Sciences Center, a quarter of a mile northeast of the main campus. The teaching hospital, which opened in 1971, provides a wide range of health care services in 11 departments in the clinical sciences. Outpatient services are offered in various clinics as well as inpatient care. The facility has earned national recognition for its heart and lung transplantation specialist, Cancer center and emergency maternal/newborn transport program, among others.

RESEARCH
Because of its strength in academic sciences, the University of Arizona is listed as a Research University by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. Only 29 public universities including the University of Arizona have achieved this status. Of the 29, the University of Arizona is ranked 12th.

LIBRARIES
The University Library is ranked 21st among U.S. and Canadian research libraries by the Association of Research Libraries. It contains nearly five million items. The University of Arizona library system serves a large number of independent researchers and Arizona citizens, as well as students and faculty.

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
A variety of music and drama programs are offered throughout the academic year by the Faculty of Fine Arts and by the Artist Series.
Major art collections are housed in the University of Arizona Museum of Art, and other art exhibits are offered at the Joseph Gross Gallery and Student Union Memorial Building.
The works of world-renowned photographers are kept and periodically displayed in the Center for Creative Photography. Major holdings include archives of Ansel Adams and W. Eugene smith, among others. Daily programs and exhibits are held in the University's Flandrau Planetarium. The Arizona State Museum, with its rich Southwestern collections, also is located on campus.

ATHLETICS
A member of the Pacific-10 (PAC 10) Conference since 1978, the University of Arizona competes in eight men's intercollegiate sports: football, basketball, baseball, track and field, swimming and diving, tennis, golf, cross country and hockey. Collectively, they have won more than 180 national teach championships. The nine Women's teams that compete in the Western Collegiate Athletic Association include: softball, basketball, swimming and diving, golf, gymnastics, cross-country, track and field, tennis and volleyball. The women also compete in synchronized swimming, a non-WCAA sport. About 10,000 University students annually participate in several dozen intramural and club sports.
Athletic facilities include Arizona Stadium (52,000); McKale Memorial Center (14,341); Wildcat Field (9,000); a synthetic-surface track facility; an Olympic-size swimming pool; and 15 tennis courts.