University of Utah

The university was established on February 28, 1850, as the University of Deseret, renamed the University of Utah in 1892 and moved to its current Salt Lake City campus in 1900. Taylor R. Randall is president. Fall 2024 enrollment was 36,881 students, and the endowment was $2.07 billion in fiscal 2025. The university joined the Association of American Universities in 2019 and had $723.7 million in research and development funding in fiscal 2023. [1] [2]

Its health system includes University of Utah Hospital and the Huntsman Cancer Institute, and its Research Park houses companies such as ARUP Laboratories and Myriad Genetics. The university was one of the four original ARPANET nodes, implanted the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in Barney Clark in 1982 and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics ceremonies. The Utes played in the Pac-12 from 2011 and now compete in the Big 12. [1]