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ACADEMICS
We ignite students’ drive to discover, preparing them to become tomorrow’s leaders and global citizens. The world needs to be fed, powered, governed, and inspired like never before. Real-life heroes need to step up to solve these grand challenges, and University of Minnesota professors and students are finding solutions one curious idea, incredible experiment, and groundbreaking paper at a time.
Will you join them?
Renowned Experts and Research Opportunities
You’ll have classes taught by National Academy of Science members, patent holders, researchers and published authors. Our faculty members are leaders in their fields, and they can’t wait to help you dive into your passion. Our student to faculty ratio is 17 to 1.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
Interested in magnetic resonance imaging? Or personality assessments? No matter the topic, expand your curiosity with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) where scholarships are awarded to undergraduates to start their own real-time research, with the support of an esteemed faculty member.
Freshman Seminars
Freshman seminars are an integral part of the freshman experience where students learn about niche, specialized topics in a small classroom environment of less than 20 students. Not only is the coursework fun, it also provides the opportunity to branch out on different subjects while integrating a tight group of other freshman into the larger university setting.
University Honors Program
A program that offers unique interdisciplinary experiences, research, collaboration, and the opportunity to graduate with Latin distinction (cum laude, magna, summa). Your honors advisor will help support you in becoming active in a community of engaged and curious thinkers.
When you apply for admission to the university, you are automatically considered for the honors program with no separate application required!
You might choose a freshman seminar like
Ballooning: Design, Build, and Fly
Students learned how to design a spacecraft, then built and launched their model into the stratosphere. Discussions and activities involved engineering challenges in spaceflight and analyzed the data from the model mission.
Your Senior Year of High School
Your success is important to us, and college courses build upon skills and knowledge taught in high school. Taking a strong academic curriculum during high school will positively impact your performance in your freshman year of college, so we expect you’ll continue taking rigorous courses throughout your high school career, including senior year.
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Learn more at z.umn.edu/greatacademics