The University of Cincinnati offers students a balance of educational excellence and real-world experience.
UC is a public research university with an enrollment of more than 46,000 students and has been named "Among the top tier of the Best National Universities," according to U.S. News & World Report.
Today, more than 300,000 living alumni count themselves as Bearcats - united not just by their loyalty to our nationally known sports teams, but by their common love of the place, the people and the ideas that make up the University of Cincinnati.
- Number of Buildings: 118 facilities on 476 acres
- Majors & Programs: 414 degree programs, 262 minors and certificates
- Athletics: NCAA Division I; American Athletic Conference
- Famous Alumni & Faculty: Astronaut Neil Armstrong; President and later Chief Justice William Howard Taft; Eula Bingham, environmental scientist and one-time head of OSHA; Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine; and prima ballerina Suzanne Farrell
- Students from: 50 states and 114 countries
- Living Alumni: over 300,000 with approximately half (more than 140,000 residing in the greater Cincinnati region).
University-wide Rankings
- Top 5 — Cooperative Education, 2020
- 139 — Top tier, Best National Universities, 2019
- 64 — Top public school, 2019
As the global founder of cooperative education, UC remains a world-class leader in experience-based learning. U.S. News & World Report ranks UC’s co-op program in the Top 5 in the country, and our students earn a collective $75 million annually working for about 1,300 international employers via their co-op work placements, alternating academic semesters with professional, paid work directly tied to their majors.
The National Science Foundation places UC in the top 40 among America’s public research universities, and UC is one of only 115 institutions classified as housing the very highest activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. U.S. News & World Report ranks UC in the Top Tier of America’s Best Colleges (64th among public universities), and Reuters recently named UC among the world’s top 100 most-innovative universities, one of only 46 U.S. universities to make that prestigious list.
