University of Louisville

On April 3, 1798, eight men declared their intention to establish the Jefferson Seminary in Louisville and called upon their fellow citizens to join them in pledging funds for land, buildings, and teachers. Occurring a few weeks after the Kentucky legislature had chartered this academy and several others in the new state, this event marked the beginning of an advanced level of education for the young people of a frontier settlement barely two decades old. Near the end of the eighteenth century these early Louisvillians took the first steps on a journey that would link them with succeeding generations to the modern University of Louisville in the twenty-first century.The University of Louisville is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award associate, bachelor, master, specialist, doctoral, and first-professional degrees (D.M.D., J.D., M.D.).

The University of Louisville is a state supported research university located in Kentuckys largest metropolitan area. It was a municipally supported public institution for many decades prior to joining the university system in 1970. The University has three campuses. The 287-acre Belknap Campus is three miles from downtown Louisville and houses seven of the universitys 12 colleges and schools. The Health Sciences Center is situated in downtown Louisvilles medical complex and houses the universitys health related programs and the University of Louisville Hospital. The 243-acre Shelby Campus is located in eastern Jefferson County.The University of Louisville pursues excellence and inclusiveness in its work to educate and serve its community through-teaching diverse undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in order to develop engaged citizens, leaders, and scholars,practicing and applying research, scholarship and creative activity, and
providing engaged service and outreach that improve the quality of life for local and global communities.
The University is committed to achieving preeminence as a nationally recognized metropolitan research university.

Belknap Campus is considered the schools main campus and is located south of downtown Louisville. At 274 acres, it is home to seven of the 12 academic colleges (and a cast of Auguste Rodins The Thinker statue). The campus proper also includes the football stadium (Papa Johns Cardinal Stadium), softball stadium (Owsley B. Frazier Cardinal Park), Cardinal Track and Soccer Stadium, Bass-Rudd Tennis Center, and the baseball stadium (Jim Patterson Stadium).