University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Along the way, our urban university has become an indispensable resource in one of the country's fastest-growing and most enterprising cities.

UNLV’s diverse faculty, students, staff, and alumni promote community well-being and individual achievement through education, research, scholarship, creative activities, and clinical services. We stimulate economic development and diversification, foster a climate of innovation, promote health, and enrich the cultural vitality of the communities that we serve.

We will evaluate our success as a leading research university by our progress on these key measures:

• Impact of our research, scholarship, and creative activities.
• Student achievement of learning outcomes.
• Placement into preferred employment or post-graduate educational opportunities.
• Student, faculty, and staff diversity, including maintaining UNLV’s Minority Serving Institution (MSI) status and Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) status.
• Intellectual activity, patents, and entrepreneurial activity fostered by UNLV.
• Quality and impact of our clinical services.
• Alignment of our physical infrastructure and organizational effectiveness with our Top Tier mission.
• A deeper engagement of UNLV with Las Vegas and our region to ensure ongoing alignment with our diverse community’s needs and interests.
• Carnegie Classification criteria (research expenditures; doctoral degrees granted per year; number of non-faculty research staff, such as postdocs; and Carnegie Community Engagement status).

As a measure of overall university effectiveness and progress, UNLV will prepare, implement, and disseminate a progress card.

Here at UNLV, we have come together and created one of the most affirmative and dynamic academic environments in the country. UNLV continues to rise in U.S. News & World Report’s annual listing of the nation’s most diverse universities for undergraduates. The university is tied for first in the publication’s annual Best Ethnic Diversity listing. UNLV has placed in the top 10 for the past six years and continues to show our commitment to serving our wonderfully diverse population and building the future for Las Vegas and Nevada.

From creating community partnerships and advancing student achievement, to promoting research, scholarship, and creative activity, we work hard to achieve our goal of becoming a top 100 American research university.

UNLV is an affordable choice, costing just half the price of the national average. In addition to our low-cost tuition, most of our students benefit from loans, grants, scholarships, and work-study programs to help pay their college expenses, ensuring an affordable education.

UNLV is moving toward a future as a Top Tier university with innovative academic programs, expanded research opportunities for both undergraduates and graduates, and new community partnerships that will greatly enhance your experience both in and out of the classroom.

One of our most valuable assets is our location right in the heart of Fabulous Las Vegas. Our campus location provides us with unique connections to industry, technology and leadership exclusive to the Las Vegas Strip and surrounding areas.

It’s a place where things happen. It’s a place where you can define your own journey. It’s a place where you have free rein to determine your future and push the boundaries. UNLV provides infinite possibilities in different, daring, and diverse ways.

Since its first classes were held in 1957, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), has undergone an amazing transformation — from a dusty outpost on the south edge of town to a thriving urban research institution. Along the way, thanks to its innovative frontier spirit, UNLV has kept pace with one of the country's fastest-growing and most enterprising cities.

Over the next three decades, UNLV continued this heady rate of development—erecting more than 100 buildings, developing dozens of graduate programs, creating partnerships with the community, fielding nationally ranked sports teams, founding an alumni association, promoting scholarship, establishing a fundraising foundation, and recruiting diverse and talented students from across the country.

Seeking external research funding? Have questions about a research protocol? Looking to collaborate with campus peers or private-sector partners? UNLV’s Division of Research and Economic Development is here to help. It’s never too early to launch your research career at UNLV. From robotics to genetics and more, our campus provides a wealth of research opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students alike. Working with public and private entities fuels research opportunities, generates revenue, creates jobs, diversifies our economy, and drives innovation forward. We welcome you to join us in these efforts.

Innovative solutions can be found when groups of researchers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds approach complex problems together. UNLV fosters interdisciplinary collaborations through thoughtfully designed dedicated facilities, specialized centers and institutes, and other resources it provides.

The Science and Engineering Building (SEB) has an innovative design that supports collaboration among faculty in the sciences, engineering, health sciences, and other university research units. It also provides faculty and students expanded opportunity to participate in highly sophisticated research using some of the most technologically advanced equipment available.

UNLV Libraries participate in the articulation and assessment of student learning; provide direct instruction to students; partner with classroom faculty on course and assignment design; and intentionally create co-curricular learning experiences.