The University of Utah is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, founded in 1850. With about 25,000 undergraduate and 8,000 graduate students, Utah is the flagship of the Utah System of Higher Education. Notable academic strengths include medicine, computer science (the Department of Computer Science is one of the oldest in the country), business (David Eccles), and the natural sciences. The Utes compete in NCAA Division I in the Big 12 Conference (joined 2024). Utah's residential life is organized around the **Heritage Commons** — a residential village on the foothills of the …
