University of Cincinnati | Public Research Institution

School Name

University of Cincinnati

City

Cincinnati

State

Ohio

Institutional Control

Public

General Information

Year Founded:

1819

Academic Calendar

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Accreditation:

Higher Learning Commission (HLC), a Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). The Higher Learning Commission, 30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60602-2504.

Awards

Selected Rankings:

Top 100 public universities (U.S. News & World Report 2010 college rankings)
Top 100 “Elite Values” in higher education (Money Magazine)
Top 50 research libraries (Association of Research Libraries)
11th largest endowment of 569 institutions surveyed (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Top 15 underrated gems (College Match)
Featured in The Best 201 Colleges for the Real World: Get In. Get Out. Get a Job.
Top 20 public research universities nationally (Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance Annual Report)
Classified as a Doctoral/Research – Extensive University, by the Carnegie Commission; one of only 151 in the nation of nearly 4,000 institutions of higher education

First program of cooperative education – Herman Schneider (1906)
First oral polio vaccine – Albert Sabin
First observations leading to the National Weather Service
First antihistamine, Benadryl – George Rieveschl
First electronic organ – Winston Kock
First use of YAG laser to remove brain tumor
First bachelor’s degree program in nursing
First emergency medicine residency program
First safe anti-knock gasoline
First degree program offered via satellite
First, Benadryl – George Rieveschl. George Rieveschl (1916-2007) invented Benadryl, the first antihistamine. He earned three degrees at the University of Cincinnati: A.B. (1937), M.S. (1939), and Ph.D. (1940). While conducting research at UC, he developed a number of potential antispasmodic compounds. Benadryl, one of these compounds, showed promise as an anti-allergy drug and was first marketed in 1946 by Parke Davis. Rieveschl was named to the International Science and Engineering Hall of Fame in 1995.
First electronic organ – Winston Kock. Too young to be admitted to the University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering, Winston Kock first enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Music, and never regretted it. When he turned sixteen he transferred to engineering and his undergraduate thesis revolutionized the music world. It was the invention of the electronic organ, the first to generate sound through small vacuum tubes, rather than massive pipes. This feat put an organ within reach of nearly every family that ever dreamed of owning one. His patent for the organ was the first of over eighty that he would receive throughout his career.
Joseph B. Strauss: Designer of the Golden Gate Bridge. An 1892 graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Joseph Strauss astonished the audience at graduation exercises by proposing to bridge the Bering Straits. After working in other firms, he formed his own company in 1902, eventually building more than 500 bridges, and earning 100 patents along the way. The Golden Gate project was the culmination of his career, and, for a time, it was the longest bridge in the world. Strauss placed a brick from UC’s original McMicken Hall in the bridge’s south anchorage. The bridge was completed in 1937. Strauss died in 1938.
First oral polio vaccine – Albert Sabin. Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the oral, live virus polio vaccine, began his career in biomedical research in 1926 while still a student at New York University where he received his M.D. degree. He worked at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1935-1939. From 1939 through 1969, Dr. Sabin was successively Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Research Pediatrics, and Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and The Children’s Hospital Research Foundation.

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Statistics

Type of Institution: Public
Total Undergraduate Enrollment: 28,369
Total Graduate Enrollment: 8,703
Average Age Undergraduate: 23.5
Average Age Graduate: 30.4
Average High School GPA: 3.10
Percent of Undergraduate Enrollment by Gender:
- Male: 46.5%
- Female 53.5%
Percent of Graduate Enrollment by Gender:
- Male: 42.4%
- Female: 57.6%
Percent of Undergraduate who are full-time students: 76.2%
Percent of Undergraduate who are part-time students: 23.8%
Percent of Graduate who are full-time students: 59.3%
Percent of Graduate who are part-time students: 40.7%
Percent of Undergraduate Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity:
- American Indian: 0.3%
- Asian: 2.5%
- Black: 11.0%
- Hispanic: 1.5%
- Minorities: 15.3%
- White: 76.5%
- Non-res. Alien: 6.8%
Percent of Graduate Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity:
- American Indian: 0.3%
- Asian: 2.6%
- Black: 7.1%
- Hispanic: 1.6%
- Minorities: 11.5%
- White: 62.4%
- Non-res. Alien: 19.2%
- Other/Unknown: 6.9%

Program Listings

Bachelor's

BS in Clinical Laboratory Science

Master's/MBA