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About Us
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota was founded as a preparatory school in 1851, seven years before the territory of Minnesota became a state Known as the father of the University, John Sargent Pillsbury, who was a University regent, state senator, and governor, used his influence to establish the school as the official recipient of public support from the Morrill Land‐Grant Act, designating it as Minnesota’s first land‐grant university Today, the University of Minnesota ranks among the nation’s top public universities and largest schools. They offer baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degrees in virtually every field—from medicine to business, law to liberal arts, and science and engineering to architecture
The Twin Cities campus, the University’s largest campus, is made up of 17 colleges and offers the full range of academic and professional degrees. Other University System campuses are in Duluth, Morris, Crookston, and Rochester University alumni include several Nobel Prize winners, a former chief justice of the United States, two former vice presidents, the heads of Fortune 500 companies, pioneers in medicine, two astronauts, civil rights leaders, top journalists, and men and women who have achieved distinction in every field. Alumni and their families and friends are always welcome at the University Alumni are invited to continue their relationship with the University through the University of Minnesota Alumni Association and its college associations
College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
With a legacy of bringing discoveries to life through science, the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) educates the next generation of leaders to anticipate and adapt to a changing state and world and solve the real challenges of nourishing people while enriching the environments in which we live Created in 2006 via the merger of two colleges and a department, today the college—better known as CFANS —consists of 12 academic departments and 10 research and outreach centers (ROCs) across Minnesota, plus the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, the Bell Museum, and dozens of interdisciplinary centers that span the college, the university, and the globe Our unique living laboratories both at the St Paul campus and around the state allow students, faculty, and staff to study in forests, fields, and water across all four of Minnesota’s diverse ecosystems, while being part of a major urban university located in the heart of the Twin Cities
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