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Facts & Figures (Fall 2015)

Mission: Kentucky's premier, nationally recognized metropolitan research university
Established: 1798
President: Neville G. Pinto, active president
Student Body: 22,367 (Fall 2015)
Average ACT: 25.5 (Fall 2015)
Faculty and Staff: 6,997 (excluding instruction/research assistants)
Alumni: More than 141,000 residing in the United States and around the world
Operating Budget
2015-16:		 $1.2 billion including $140.4 million from the Commonwealth of Kentucky)
Endowment: $796.9 million (FY 2015)
Federal Funding: $66.4 million (FY 2015)
Athletic Conference: Atlantic Coast Conference
Mascot: Cardinal

Student Enrollment (Fall 2015)

Total Headcount: 22,367
Full-Time Equivalent: 18,601
Full-Time: 17,125
Part-Time: 5,242
Undergraduate: 15,985
Graduate: 5,595
Post-Doctoral: 159
Male: 11,083
Female: 11,284
African American: 10.14%
All Other Minorities: 16.75%
White: 73.11%
Nonresident Aliens: 4.78%
In-State:* 16,945
Jefferson County: 9,722
All Other Kentucky Counties: 7,223
Out-of-State: 5,422
Indiana Reciprocity: 1,058
Other Out-of-State: 4,364

* - Indicates permanent residence at time of first admission to UofL.

Student Classification (Fall 2015)

Freshman: 3,709
Sophomore: 3,211
Junior: 3,456
Senior: 4,352
Undergraduate-Non-Degree seeking: 633
Post-Baccalaureate-Degree seeking: 278
Post-Baccalaureate-Certificate: 82
Graduate-Non-degree seeking: 183
Master's: 2,759
Specialist: 39
Post-Doctoral: 159
Doctor's Degree Professional Practice
(Medicine, Dentistry, Law):		 1,429
House Staff: 628
TOTAL: 22,367

Academic Schools and Colleges

NameDean
College of Arts and Sciences Kimberly Kempf-Leonard
Brandeis School of Law Susan H. Duncan
College of Business Alan Attaway (interim)
School of Dentistry T. Gerard Bradley
College of Education and Human Development Ann Larson
School of Graduate and Interdisciplinary Studies Beth A. Boehm
Kent School of Social Work David Jenkins
School of Medicine Toni M. Ganzel
School of Music Christopher P. Doane
School of Nursing Marcia J. Hern
School of Public Health and Information Sciences Craig H. Blakely
Speed School of Engineering John S. Usher (acting)
University Libraries Robert E. Fox

Degrees Conferred 2015-16

Doctoral Degree Professional Practice: 395
Doctoral Degree Research/Scholarship: 172
Master's/Specialist: 1,352
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate: 107
Baccalaureate: 2,832
Associate: 25
Certificate: 46
Total:* 4,938

Budget 2015-16

Total: $1,228,604,700

Revenue

Tuition and Fees: $300,381,821
State Appropriations: $140,416,300
Grants and Contracts: $187,617,000
Other (includes clinics, hospital & endowments): $507,659,579
Athletic Revenues: $92,530,000

Expenditures

Salaries: $587,734,964
Fringe Benefits: $144,419,252
Operating Expenses: $325,768,948
Student Financial Aid: $129,417,251
Debt Service: $18,835,757
Hospital Indigent Care: $0
Capital Outlay: $22,428,528
Total: $1,228,604,700

Grants and Contracts (Fiscal Year 2015)

Funding SourcesNumber of AwardsAmount Received
Federal Government 173 $66,429,703
Federal Flow-through 153 $23,825,329
State Government 42 $11,920,956
Local Government 16 $617,182
International 5 $267,239
Industry 39 $8,703,676
Private Nonprofit 119 $16,426,490
Other 4 $179,364
Clinical Trials 297 $8,490,474
Total 848 $136,860,413

Personnel (by IPEDS category) Fall 2015

Full-
Time		Part-
Time		MaleFemaleTotal
Faculty
Professor: 503 39 416 126 542
Associate Professor: 461 38 275 224 499
Assistant Professor: 688 58 401 345 746
Instructor: 132 17 58 91 149
No Academic Rank/Other*: 11 456 205 262 467
Total: 1,795 608 1,355 1,048 2,403
Staff**
Administrator 106 2 65 43 108
Exempt Employee 2,191 111 729 1,573 2,302
Non-exempt employee 1,179 67 501 745 1,246
Other*** 929 9 567 371 938
Total: 4,405 189 1,862 2,732 4,594

* -"No Academic Rank/Other" includes lecturers and other teaching staff and excludes instruction/research assistants.

** Staff are categorized by UofL job grade and do not reflect US Department of Education reporting categories

*** Other includes positions such as staff on leave with pay, house staff, research fellows and visiting scholars

Board of Trustees (2015-16)

  • Marie Abrams
  • Victoria Allen (Student Constituency Representative)
  • Bob Benson
  • Laurence Benz (Chairman)
  • Emily Bingham
  • Jonathan Blue
  • Ron Butt
  • Stephen Campbell (Treasurer)
  • Pam Feldhoff (Faculty Constituency Representative)
  • Craig Greenberg
  • Douglass Hall
  • Larry Hayes
  • Bruce Henderson
  • Dr. Robert Curtis Hughes
  • Angela Lewis-Klein (Staff Constituency Representative)
  • Brucie Moore (Vice Chair)
  • Jody Prather
  • William E. Summers, IV