The University of Utah is the flagship public university of the State of Utah with a history of 170 years.

It is a member of the Association of American Universities(AAU) together with other world-renown universities such as MIT, Standford, Harvard etc. AAU is the association of leading universities in North American, similar to groups of leading universities in other regions, such as the Poject 985(China), Russell Group (UK), Excellence Initiative (Germany), and RU11(Japan).

It is classified as R1 university (universities with highest research activity) together with other 106 universities among the 3632 universities in the nation.

It is a member of the PAC-12 conference, together with UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford University, University of Washington, etc.

Ranking:

#1 in US for the number of companies spun from its labs. Read More.

#32 globally in the number of U.S. utility patents. Read more.

Top 100 universities in global ranking by Center of World Universities Rankings and Academic Ranking of World Universities.