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16 THE UNIVERSITY

The University

• A Brigham Young University study ranked UT third in the country among universities for startup companies formed per $1 million of funding.

• Innovation Associates ranked UT sixth among universities executing licenses and ranked UT seventh in launching startup com-panies when taking research expenditures into account.

• 49 UT Medical Center doctors have been named among the best in the nation.

• UT students are among the winners of pres-tigious national fellowships, including the Fulbright, the Woodrow Wilson, the National Science FoundationGraduate Fellowship, theNational Consortium for the Physical Sciences, theWhitaker Foundation, the Goldwater, the Madison Foundation Fellowship, and the Phi Kappa Phi National Fellowship.

• The University has been listed among the“100 Best Colleges for African-American Students.”

• Centennial Mall on the Main Campus is one of the“100 most beautifully landscaped places in the country,” according to the American Society of Landscape Architects. Only 22 college campuses are on the list.

• The University of Toledo College of Medicine senior graduates“matched” at a higher rate than those of other seniors nationwide for the second year in a row; a record 97 percent secured frst-year residency positions during the initial National Residency Matching Program.

• The University of Toledo has one of the largest distance-learning pro-grams in the nation.

• The UT Student Recreation Center has been touted as one of the best of its kind in the nation by USA Today.

• The Lake Erie Research and Education Center is a state-of-the-art en-vironmental research and teaching facility located on the shore of Lake Erie in Oregon, OH.

• TheUniversity of Toledo is home to a spectrumof colleges, departments and professional programs matched only by a handful of public universities nationwide.

• UT has nearly 23,000 students, 7,000 employ-ees and 100,000 alumni.

• UT has undergraduate, graduate and faculty-led researchopportunitieswith125patents andmore than $60 million in research and grants.

• UT is recognized as a major force in contribut-ing to the discovery of new technology and knowledge. UT ofers a vast array of resources for undergraduate, graduate and faculty-led research opportunities with 125 patents and $60million in research and grants.

• UT is a nationally recognized leader in research of solar energy and is de-veloping a strong presence in other advanced renewable energy research. Currently, UT hasmore than$40million inongoing research in those felds. Also, the University just created a School of Solar and Advanced Renew-able Energy to train tomorrow’s renewable energy innovators.

• Due to its reputation as a leader in alternative energy, UT was selected to house the University Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio, which coordinates collaboration amongOhio universities in the discovery, development and commercialization of energy-related technology.

• The UT Honors Program is one of the oldest programs of its kind at a major university.With an emphasis onundergraduate researchopportuni-ties, theHonors Programhas sent a delegation to theNational Conference on Undergraduate Research every year since 1992.

• UT ofers a health education curriculum that includes programs in virtually every health-care discipline, plus opportunities for educational linkages and interdisciplinary studies between the Colleges of Medicine, Engineering, Business, Law and the Department of Philosophy.

• The UT Department of Art ofers students a unique learning experience with an on-site relationship with the world-renowned Toledo Museum of Art.

• The Princeton Review recognized the UT College of Business Adminis-tration in its 2008 “Best Business Schools” publication.

• The College of Engineering has been named one of the top 20 gradu-ate programs in the nation by The Princeton Review.

• The College of Business Administration expansion, the Savage Complex for Business Learning and Engagement, will open in fall 2009. It is 54,000 sq. ft. and is LEED certifed for its green and sustainable technology.

• The College of Business Administration was the frst MBA program na-tionwide to ofer an AACSB-accredited graduate concentration in sales leadership.

• The Memorial Field House opened in fall 2008 after extensive reno-vations. The former UT basketball arena now houses general purpose classrooms. At peak hours, more than 1,500 students have classes in the building.

Points of Pride

The University of Toledo Health Science Campus is lo-cated about three miles from the main campus.

The Sullivan Athletic Complex and the newly renovated Savage Arena opened in December of 2008.