The University of Kentucky (UK) is a public co-educational university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by Isaiah Giles as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities (the other being Kentucky State University), the largest college or university in the state, with 29,385 students as of Fall 2013, and the highest ranked research university in the state according to U.S. News and World Report.

The institution comprises 16 colleges, a graduate school, 93 undergraduate programs, 99 master programs, 66 doctoral programs, and four professional programs.The University of Kentucky has fifteen libraries on campus. The largest is William T. Young Library, a federal depository, hosting subjects related to social sciences, humanities, and life sciences collections. In recent years, the university has focused expenditures increasingly on research, following a compact formed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1997. The directive mandated that the university become a Top 20 public research institution, in terms of an overall ranking to be determined by the university itself, by the year 2020.

History

In the early republic of Kentucky, advanced education was restricted to various kids from noticeable families, restrained disciples, and those young fellows looking for section into administrative, lawful, and medicinal callings. As the first college in the domain that would get to be Kentucky, Transylvania University was the essential community for instruction, and turned into the mother of what might turn into the University of Kentucky.

John Bryan Bowman established the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky (A&M), an openly contracted division of Kentucky University, in the wake of accepting government support through the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act in 1865. Courses were offered at Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate. After three years, James Kennedy Patterson turned into the first president of the area stipend college and the first degree was honored. In 1876, the college started to offer Master's degree programs. After two years, A&M isolated from Kentucky University, which is currently Transylvania University. For the new school, Lexington gave a 52 section of land (210,000 m²) stop and reasonable ground, which turned into the center of UK's available grounds. A&M was at first a male-just organization, however started to concede ladies in 1880.

In 1892, the official shades of the college, imperial blue and white, were received. A prior shading set, blue and light yellow, was embraced prior at a Kentucky-Center College football game on December 19, 1891. The specific tone of blue was resolved from a bowtie, which was utilized to exhibit the shade of regal blue.

On February 15, 1882, Administration Building was the first building of three finished on the present grounds. After three years, the school shaped the Agricultural Experiment Station, which research issues identifying with agribusiness, sustenance handling, nourishment, water and soil assets and the earth. This was caught up by the making of the college's Agricultural Extension administration in 1910, which was one of the first in the United States. The expansion administration turned into a model of the governmentally ordered projects that were required starting in 1914.

ACADEMICS

Honors program

The Honors Program at the University of Kentucky began in 1961. It offers interdisciplinary, seminar-style classes of 15-20 students each as well as "H-section" classes that accelerate common course offerings such as chemistry, biology, and physics. The program is intended to supplement the individual interests of the students. Students are offered priority registration, dedicated advising, the opportunity to engage in undergraduate research from their first semesters on campus, and are directed to other honorific programs of excellence, including the Chellgren Fellows program, the Gaines Fellowship in the Humanities, the University Scholars Program (which allows simultaneous undergraduate and graduate study), and external scholarship opportunities. Additionally, students are offered assistance with fellowship applications, scholarship applications, study abroad opportunities, and/or service learning interests, among other things.

SECU: SEC Academic Initiative

The University of Kentucky is a member of the SEC Academic Consortium. Now renamed the SECU, the initiative was a collaborative endeavor designed to promote research, scholarship and achievement amongst the member universities in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The SECU formed its mission to serve as a means to bolster collaborative academic endeavors of SEC universities. Its goals include highlighting the endeavors and achievements of SEC faculty, students and its universities and advancing the academic reputation of SEC universities.

In 2013, the University of Kentucky participated in the SEC Symposium in Atlanta which was organized and led by the University of Georgia and the UGA Bioenergy Systems Research Institute. The topic of the Symposium was titled, the "Impact of the Southeast in the World's Renewable Energy Future.

Athletics

College of Kentucky understudy competitors contend as the Wildcats under hues Kentucky blue and white. 

Starting in the 1890s, understudies at the A&M planned football games with neighboring schools. In 1902, the ladies' ball project started on grounds, and the men's group was included one year later. The "Wildcats" got to be connected with the college not long after a football triumph over Illinois on October 9, 1909. The then-head of the military division, Commandant Carbuiser, expressed that the group had "battled like wildcats." The motto was later embraced by the college, and a costumed mascot appeared in 1976.

In 1930, then-secondary school mentor Adolph Rupp was contracted as a b-ball mentor for the college. He had a vocation that would compass 42 years until 1972. Amid his residency, he drove the men's ball group to four NCAA titles in 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1958.The Wildcats later won a fifth title under Joe B. Corridor in 1978, another in 1996 under Rick Pitino and the following under Orlando "Tubby" Smith in 1998. In 2007, the University of Kentucky named Billy Gillispie as the head mentor of the men's b-ball group and on March 30, 2009, the University named John Calipari as the head mentor of the Wildcats. Calipari instructed the group to its eighth national title in 2012.

On December 21, 2009, the men's b-ball group came to another turning point, turning into the first school b-ball group to reach 2000 record-breaking wins. The 2000th win was a 88–44 triumph over the Drexel Dragons. Kentucky was additionally the first school to achieve the 1000 unequaled wins, which they fulfilled in 1969.

The college gloats of various national titles, with its most recent coming in 2012 when the men's ball group won its eighth national title. UK likewise lost to UConn in the 2014 title diversion. UK likewise gloats of a crosscountry national group title (women's, 1988), eight individual titles in aerobatic, an Olympic medalist in olympic style sports, and 19 national titles in cheerleading. Subsequent to vanquishing number-one positioned Oklahoma 13-7 in the Sugar Bowl under incredible mentor Bear Bryant, Kentucky is additionally a NCAA-perceived co-national champion for the 1950 season.

Campus

The University of Kentucky offers seven fundamental feasting offices, 23 habitation corridors, and various diversion offices spread between three unmistakable grounds: north, south, and focal. It is likewise home to more than 250 understudy run associations. The yearly cost per understudy to dwell in the residences at the University of Kentucky in 2012 was $4,135.

The college grounds is home to various eminent structures, for example, Main Building, a four-story organization building dating to 1882, which was gutted by flame on May 15, 2001. The reason for the blast was credited to a welders light amid repairs to the building's rooftop. Aggregate expenses for reproduction after the flame surpassed $17 million. The Patterson Office Tower is the tallest expanding on grounds. The college is additionally home to a few noteworthy development undertakings, including the Albert B. Chandler Hospital development.

The University of Kentucky once worked 14 junior colleges with more than 100 broadened destinations, focuses and grounds under the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, yet surrendered control under the Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997. The system of junior colleges is currently known as the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). Bordering Lexington Community College, in spite of the redesign of the junior colleges, stayed coordinated with the college, yet isolated from the University of Kentucky in 2004 and turned into a piece of KCTCS; it is currently known as Bluegrass Community and Technical College.