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unitid 157085 · Lexington, KY · public 4-year · city (large)

University of Kentucky

Public university in Lexington, Kentucky, US

founded
1865
enrollment 2023
33,930
predominant degree
Bachelor's
website
uky.edu
Campus of University of Kentucky

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The University of Kentucky is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities. It is the institution with the highest enrollment in the state, with 35,952 students in the fall of 2024. wikipedia rev 1362297071 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

93%

79th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

24,763

92nd pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

23%

undergrads on Pell grants

23rd pctl among public 4-years

completion

71%

finish within 150% time

90th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$34,391

95th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$18,851

after aid, aided students

87th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$59,025

after entry, Title IV students

72nd pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$22,500

76th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $12,182 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    22%
  • 30-48k
    13%
  • 48-75k
    15%
  • 75-110k
    17%
  • 110k+
    33%
Median family income
$61,932
First-generation students
23%
In-state tuition & fees
$13,502

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 2.6× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Social Work.760$51,575—
Business/Commerce, General.392$68,803$23,055
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.387$72,876$27,000
Marketing.385$68,574$24,225
Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.373——
Finance and Financial Management Services.327$80,396$22,375
Psychology, General.276$47,701$25,000
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.274$52,644$24,002
Biology, General.205$63,199$23,250
Communication and Media Studies.190$54,361$23,875
Medicine.190$191,366—
Computer and Information Sciences, General.156$91,572$22,250

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 2,751 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (715) · basketball player (567) · university teacher (202) · politician (147) · American football player (146) · lawyer (85) · basketball coach (58) · baseball player (55)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Thomas Hunt Morgan Medicine 1933
  • William Lipscomb Chemistry 1976

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Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1362297071), CC BY-SA 4.0.