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FACTS & STATISTICS

University of Connecticut

• Land Grant (1881), Sea Grant and Space Grant institution
• Ranked # 1 public university in New England (U.S. News & World Report 1999 - 2006)
• Carnegie Foundation Research I Extensive University
• Campus revitalization fueled by the $1 billion UConn 2000 and $1.3 billion 21st Century UConn state matching funds initiatives
• 14 Schools and Colleges
• 20,784 undergraduates at the Storrs and regional campuses
• 7,697 graduate/professional students

School of Engineering - 106 Years of Instruction

• Year Founded: 1901
• # Undergraduates: 1,668 Full Time
• # Graduate students: 476 M.S. and Ph.D.
• 110 Full Time Faculty
  
  • Over 40 Fellows of prestigious professional societies
  • 44 Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Editors of top technical journals
  • 16 NSF CAREER Award recipients; 5 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award recipients; 2 U.S. Army Research Office Young Investigator Award recipients; 1 NASA Young Investigator Award recipient
• 2 Elected Members, National Academy of Engineering
• # Alumni: 20,000
• Five Departments:
  • Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • Computer Science & Engineering
  • Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
• Majors:
  • Biomedical Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Chemical Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Civil Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Computer Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Computer Science (B.S.)
  • Computer Science & Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Electrical Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Engineering Physics (B.S.)
  • Environmental Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Management & Engineering for Manufacturing (B.S.)
  • Materials Science & Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Mechanical Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Polymer Science (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Five Undergraduate Minors:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Information Technology
  • Materials Science & Engineering
• Major Research Centers & Institutes:
  The School of Engineering operates five centers and institutes that are widely used by engineering faculty and researchers from other colleges and schools across campus; in addition, engineering faculty are strongly associated with two multi-disciplinary University centers and institutes.
  Engineering
  • Bioinformatics & Biocomputing Institute
  • T.L. Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technology
  • Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center
  • Connecticut Transportation Institute
  • Optics, Sensing & Tracking in Homeland Security Center
  University
  • Center for Environmental Science & Engineering
  • Institute of Materials Science
• # Valedictorians and Salutatorians admitted for fall 2007: 50
• Scholarships:
  2007 - $550,000 in scholarships to continuing student and $800,000 to entering freshman students
• Ave. value: $2,500
• Ave. class size - 30 students
• Ave. lab size - 15 students