Public · Laramie, WY
University of Wyoming
Get to know the college, from admissions and cost to life on campus.
Overview
UW is Wyoming's only four-year public university, which makes it the state's default flagship by default rather than competition: one R1 research institution serving the whole state, with its own law school and school of energy resources built around Wyoming's actual economy. Laramie is marketed as "America's #1 Small College Town," and at this size that's less slogan than description.
About University of Wyoming
- Type
- Public Research University
- Setting
- College Town
- Undergraduates
- 7,944
Admissions
- Early Decision/Early Action
- No
- Accepts Common App
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Cost
Tuition and aid
- Full cost of attendance
- $26,104per year
- In-state tuition
- $7,768
- Out-of-state tuition
- $24,178
- Average family income
- $69,591
- Students with a school grant
- 83%
- Average school grant
- $4,905
- Average federal debt
- $15,967at graduation
- Need-blind
- —
- Meets full need
- —
- Merit scholarships
- Yes
- CSS Profile
- —
- International aid
- —
Academics
- Majors offered
- 76
- Freshmen who return
- 80%
- Notable
- 1of one: the only public four-year university in Wyoming
Students
Campus life
- Setting
- College Town
- Location
- Laramie, WY
- Live on campus
- —
- Student organizations
- —
- Varsity sports
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UW houses students in traditional halls plus four apartment communities, and pitches on-campus living as built-in support for finding your people. The Branding Iron, UW's own student newspaper, and aggregate student reviews describe Laramie as small, cold and genuinely tight-knit, a town built around the university rather than the other way around, with the West's most affordable mountain-town cost of living. 250+ student organizations and NCAA Division I athletics give a school this size real campus energy, though some students note that being the state's only four-year public university means classmates come from every corner of Wyoming, not a shared hometown culture the way some in-state schools have.
Summarized by Spike from what students write: The Branding Iron, UW Campus Life.
Outcomes
- Earnings 6 years in
- $51,609
- Graduate within 6 years
- 59%
- Average federal debt
- $15,967
- Graduates go into
- —
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