University Of Kentucky_The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky,[4] the university is the largest in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by enrollment, with 27,171[5] students, and is also the highest ranked research university in the state, according to U.S. News and World Report.[2][6]

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