Editing University of Minnesota (section)

{{Short description|Public university in Minnesota, U.S.}}
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{{about|the campus in the Twin Cities|the entire system|University of Minnesota system}}
{{Infobox university
 | name                   = University of Minnesota Twin Cities
 | image                  = Seal of the University of Minnesota.svg
 | image_upright          = 0.7
 | other_name             = University of Minnesota; U of M; UMN
 | motto                  = {{Lang|la|Commune vinculum omnibus artibus}} ([[Latin]])
 | mottoeng               = "A common bond for all the arts"
 | type                   = [[Public university|Public]] [[Land-grant university|land-grant]] [[research university]]
 | established            = {{start date and age|1851}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://regents.umn.edu/sites/regents.umn.edu/files/policies/Seal_Policy.pdf |title=Board of Regents Policy |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=August 31, 2015 |archive-date=May 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508131147/http://regents.umn.edu/sites/regents.umn.edu/files/policies/Seal_Policy.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | accreditation          = [[Higher Learning Commission|HLC]]
 | academic_affiliations  = {{hlist
| [[Association of American Universities|AAU]]|[[Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities|CUMU]]
| [[Universities Research Association|URA]]|
| [[National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program|Space-grant]]
}}
 | parent                 = [[University of Minnesota System]]
 | endowment              = $5.501 billion (system-wide, 2023)<ref name=NACUBO>{{Cite web|title=U.S. and Canadian 2023 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2023 Endowment Market Value, Change in Market Value from FY22 to FY23, and FY23 Endowment Market Values Per Full-time Equivalent Student |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) |url=https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2023-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-FINAL.xlsx |date=2023 |access-date= January 4, 2025 |format=Excel}}</ref>
 | budget                 = $4.5 billion (system-wide, 2024)<ref>For Minnesota State Fiscal Year 2024 {{cite web |url=https://finance.umn.edu/budget |title=University Budget and University Finance |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=March 26, 2024 |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310060027/https://finance.umn.edu/budget |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | president              = [[Rebecca Miriam Cunningham|Rebecca Cunningham]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://president.umn.edu/ |url-status=live |archive-date=July 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701143732/https://president.umn.edu/ |website=president.umn.edu |language=en |access-date=July 1, 2024 |title=Office of the President}}</ref>
 | provost                = [[Rachel Croson]]
 | academic_staff         = 4,926 (fall 2024)<ref name=headcount>{{cite web |url=https://idr.umn.edu/reports-by-topic-faculty-staff/faculty-and-staff-headcounts |access-date=March 26, 2024 |title=University of Minnesota: Faculty and Staff Headcounts |publisher=University of Minnesota Office of Institutional Data and Research |archive-date=March 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313221930/https://idr.umn.edu/reports-by-topic-faculty-staff/faculty-and-staff-headcounts |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | total_staff            = 28,130 (fall 2024)<ref name=headcount />
 | students               = 56,666 (fall 2024)<ref name=enrollment>{{cite web |url=https://idr.umn.edu/reports-by-topic-enrollment/enrollments |title=Official Enrollment Statistics |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=March 26, 2024 |archive-date=January 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116194754/https://idr.umn.edu/reports-by-topic-enrollment/enrollments |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 31,855 (fall 2024)<ref name=enrollment />
 | postgrad               = 11,255 (fall 2024)<ref name=enrollment />
 | doctoral               = 5,658 (fall 2023)<ref name=doctoral>{{cite web |url=https://apps.grad.umn.edu/stats/en/grad.shtml |title=All University of Minnesota Graduate Enrollment |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=January 4, 2025}}</ref>
 | other                  = 9,670 (fall 2024)<ref name=enrollment />
 | city                   = [[Minneapolis]]-[[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]]
 | state                  = [[Minnesota]]
 | country                = United States
 | coordinates            = {{coord|44|58|30|N|93|14|07|W|region:US-MN_type:edu_scale:10000|display=inline,title}}
 | campus                 = Large city<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Minnesota&s=all&id=174066 |title=College Navigator – University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |website=nces.ed.gov |access-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107125817/https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Minnesota&s=all&id=174066 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | campus_size            = {{cvt|2730|acre|ha}}
 | colors                 = Maroon and gold<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Brand: How to Convey It |url=https://university-relations.umn.edu/resources/colors-and-type |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=March 3, 2023 |archive-date=February 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213100644/https://university-relations.umn.edu/resources/colors-and-type |url-status=live}}</ref><br />{{color box|#7A0019}}&nbsp;{{color box|#FFCC33}}
 | athletics_nickname     = [[Minnesota Golden Gophers|Golden Gophers]]
 | mascot                 = [[Goldy Gopher]]
 | sporting_affiliations  = {{hlist|[[NCAA Division I FBS]] – [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]]|[[Western Collegiate Hockey Association|WCHA]]}}
 | website                = {{URL|https://twin-cities.umn.edu/}}
 | logo                   = University of Minnesota Logo.svg
 | logo_upright           = .5
 | free_label             = Other campuses
 | free                   = [[University of Minnesota Rochester|Rochester]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hlcommission.org/institution/1409/ |title=HLC - University of Minnesota-Twin Cities - Branch Campuses}}</ref>
 | free_label2            = Newspaper
 | free2                  = ''[[Minnesota Daily]]''
}}

The '''University of Minnesota Twin Cities'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SYSTEM IDENTITY |url=https://university-relations.umn.edu/sites/university-relations.umn.edu/files/2023-01/System_style_guide-11-22.pdf |access-date=September 27, 2024 |website=The University of Minnesota System}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://twin-cities.umn.edu/about-us |access-date=September 27, 2024 |website=University of Minnesota Twin Cities |language=en}}</ref><!--The official name corresponds to the systemwide "University of Minnesota System Identity" document and the Twin Cities campus website. Do not change university name here without gaining consensus in Talk. --> (historically known as '''University of Minnesota''') is a [[public university|public]] [[Land-grant university|land-grant]] [[research university]] in the [[Minneapolis–Saint Paul|Twin Cities]] of [[Minneapolis]] and [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]], United States. It is the [[Flagship#Colleges and universities in the United States|flagship institution]] of the [[University of Minnesota System]] and is organized into 19 colleges, schools, and other major academic units.

The Twin Cities campus is the oldest and largest in the [[University of Minnesota system]] and has the [[List of United States university campuses by enrollment|ninth-largest]] (as of the 2022–2023 academic year) main campus student body in the United States, with 54,890 students at the start of the 2023–24 academic year.<ref>{{cite web |title=Official Enrollment Statistics |url=https://www.oir.umn.edu/student/enrollment |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119001227/https://idr.umn.edu/reports-by-topic-enrollment/enrollments |archive-date=January 19, 2024 |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=Office of Institutional Research |language=en}}</ref> 
The campus comprises locations in Minneapolis and [[Falcon Heights, Minnesota|Falcon Heights]], a suburb of St. Paul, approximately {{cvt|3|mi}} apart.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=http://www.umn.edu/system |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029051341/https://www.umn.edu/system/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 29, 2021 |title=About Us |work=University of Minnesota Twin Cities |access-date=August 3, 2015}}</ref>

The [[Minnesota Territorial Legislature]] drafted a charter for the University of Minnesota as a territorial university in 1851, seven years before Minnesota became a state. The university is currently [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/srp.php?clq=%7B%22basic2005_ids%22%3A%2215%22%7D |title=Carnegie Classifications Standard Listings |publisher=[[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education]] |access-date=April 15, 2016 |archive-date=December 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216205056/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/srp.php?clq=%7B%22basic2005_ids%22:%2215%22%7D |url-status=live}}</ref> It is a member of the [[Association of American Universities]]. The [[National Science Foundation]] ranked the University of Minnesota 22nd among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2022 with $1.202 billion.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UMN Research Statistics {{!}} RIO |url=https://research.umn.edu/about-us/umn-research-statistics#:~:text=R&D%20Expenditures,across%20all%20campuses%20in%20FY22. |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=research.umn.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Zalaznick |first=Matt |date=January 6, 2023 |title=Billion-dollar business: These are higher ed's top 30 R&D performers |url=https://universitybusiness.com/r-d-research-and-development-billion-dollar-top-30-college-university-higher-ed-spenders/ |access-date=December 28, 2023 |website=University Business |language=en-US}}</ref> The University of Minnesota is considered a [[Public Ivy]] university.<ref>{{cite book |last=Greene |first=Howard R. |title=The public ivies: America's flagship public universities |year=2001 |publisher=Cliff Street Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0060934590 |edition=1st |author2=Greene, Matthew W.}}</ref>

The [[Minnesota Golden Gophers]] compete in 21 intercollegiate sports in the [[NCAA Division I]] [[Big Ten Conference]] and have won 29 national championships.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Minnesota Athletics - Official Athletics Website |url=https://gophersports.com/ |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=University of Minnesota Athletics |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Minnesota Championships |url=https://gophersports.com/sports/2018/5/21/trads-championships-html |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=University of Minnesota Athletics |language=en}}</ref> As of March 2024, Minnesota's current and former students have won a total of  [[List of American universities with Olympic medals|90 Olympic medals]].  There are 25 Nobel laureates associated with the university.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Golden Gophers in the Olympics |url=https://gophersports.com/sports/2018/5/21/ot-olympians-html.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927034228/https://gophersports.com/sports/2018/5/21/ot-olympians-html.aspx |archive-date=September 27, 2023 |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=University of Minnesota Athletics |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://scholarswalk.umn.edu/national-and-international-awards/nobel-prize#:~:text=Twenty-five%20individuals%20who%20have%20been%20faculty%20or%20students,site%20for%20details%20and%20history%20about%20this%20award%29 | title=Nobel Prize &#124; Scholars Walk }}</ref>