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Public university in Logan, Utah, US

Utah State University (USU or Utah State) is a public land grant research university with its main campus in Logan, Utah. Founded in 1888 under the Morrill Land Grant Acts as Utah's federal land grant institution, Utah State is one of two flagship universities for the state of Utah; it is classified among "Carnegie R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". Utah State's main campus in Logan is the oldest and the largest public residential campus operating in Utah with over 84% of students living away from home. Utah State's original charter focused on military science, technology, science, agriculture, and mechanical arts. By 1947, the military science program at Utah State had gained such prominence that USU became known as the "West Point of the West" since USU commissioned more officers into the U. S. military than any school in the nation except the United States Military Academy at West Point. Among these research institutes is Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), which is the sole University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) for the United States Missile Defense Agency; and, is one of only 15 UARCs in the nation for the United States Department of Defense. According to the National Science Foundation, USU is 83rd in the nation and 54th among public universities for total research and development revenue and expenditures with $344.9 million in 2022; USU is home to the second oldest undergraduate research program in the United States. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act into effect in July of the following year. Meanwhile, after visiting a few rural agricultural schools in his native Denmark, Anthon H. Lund of the Utah Territorial Legislature decided that there existed in the Utah Territory a need for such a school fusing the highest in scientific and academic research with agriculture, the way of life for the vast majority of locals. Upon returning to the United States, Lund heard about the Morrill Act and pitched a vision for the college that would receive widespread support among members of the Territorial Legislature, seeking to reapply for statehood. Now, there came the question of location. According to historian Joel Ricks, in 1938, "Provo had received the Insane Asylum, Salt Lake City had the University and Capitol, and most of the legislature felt that the new institutions should be given to Weber and Cache Counties." Citizens in Logan, Cache County, banded together and successfully lobbied representatives for the honor. The bill to establish the Agricultural College of Utah was passed on March 8, 1888, and on September 2, 1890, 14 year old Miss Vendla Berntson enrolled as its first student.

In its early years, the college narrowly dodged two major campaigns to consolidate its operations with the University of Utah. Much controversy arose in response to President William J. Kerr's expansion of the college's scope beyond its agricultural roots. Detractors in Salt Lake City feared that such an expansion would come at the University of Utah's expense and pushed consolidation as a counter. In 1907, an agreement was struck to strictly limit the Agricultural College's curricula to agriculture, domestic science, and mechanic arts. This meant closing all departments in Logan, including the music department, which did not fall under that umbrella. Consequently, the University of Utah became solely responsible, for a time, for courses in engineering, law, medicine, fine arts, and pedagogy, despite the Agricultural College's initial charter in 1888, which mandated that it offer instruction in such things. The bulk of the curricular restrictions were lifted during the next two decades, with all restrictions on USU's academic growth being officially abolished by the Utah State legislature in the 1990s.

The Agricultural College grew modestly amid the tumult, adding its statewide Extension program in 1914. A year later, it granted its first master's degrees. UAC, as the Utah Agricultural College was commonly abbreviated, also received a notable boost in students due to World War I. Colleges and universities nationwide were temporarily transformed into training grounds for the short lived Student Army Training Corps, composed of students who received military instruction and could return to their educations following their military service. As the then tiny campus could not otherwise support such large numbers of new students, college president Elmer Peterson convinced the state in 1918 to appropriate funds for permanent brick buildings, which could be used as living space for SATC students during the war, and instruction afterward. Though the war was soon to end, the campus essentially doubled in size. After World War I, the Military Science program continued to grow. In fact, by 1947 USU's military science program was so successful, and had gained such nationwide prominence, that USU came be known as the, "West Point of the West" as USU came to commission more officers into the military than any other school in the nation, with the exception of the United States Military Academy at West Point. The 1920s and 1930s saw the genesis of significant growth. A School of Education was added in 1928, a prelude to the institution renamed Utah State Agricultural College in 1929. Doctoral degrees were first granted in 1950. In 1957, the school was granted university status as Utah State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, but the short name Utah State University is used even in official documents. Starting March 23, 1942, and each month after, a new group of 100 Navy students arrived for three months of 14 hour days in concentrated electrical engineering study. Smart Gymnasium was converted to a dormitory, and Old Main was fitted for classrooms and laboratories. Larry S. Cole was named program director, and Waldo G. Hobson was the director of instruction. ETP admission required passing the Eddy Test, one of the most selective qualifying exams given during the war years. At a given time, some 300 Navy students were on the campus, augmenting the war years regular enrollment of 1,000. Sidney R. Stock had developed the Radio and Aviation Department earlier and entered the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander to assist in organizing electronics training. He was a member of the committee in Washington that planned the ETP and shortly returned to Utah State as the Officer in Charge. The ETP Primary School continued at Utah State until August 1944, graduating about 2,750 students in 30 classes. During the late 1970s, controversy again erupted on campus surrounding the school's historically sizeable Iranian population. As U. S. relations with Iran began to deteriorate throughout the decade, Iranian students on campus began staging protests against the Shah, which demonstrations met with some backlash in the community. Following the outbreak of the hostage crisis of 1979, immigration officials arrived on campus to interview each Iranian, an event that alienated many international and domestic students. The Merrill Cazier Library opened in 2005, and other facilities have followed. In 2012, the university successfully concluded a $400 million fundraising campaign, the largest ever at USU.

The Utah State University operates a system of campuses throughout the state of Utah, and USU extension offices are located in every county in Utah. Utah State also owns and/or operates the following agricultural, equestrian, botanical, and ecological centers: the Bastian Equestrian and Agricultural Center (Salt Lake City), the USU Botanical Gardens (Kaysville), the Ogden Botanical Gardens (Ogden), Thanksgiving Point (Lehi), the USU Equestrian Center (Nibley), and the Swaner EcoCenter (Park City). The earliest roots of USU's distance education go back to 1904 when USU professors traveled by train from Logan to Burley, Idaho to deliver dairy lectures. In the 1950s, professors regularly drove around the state to teach courses and advise students. The first Statewide Campus, Uintah Basin, was designated by the Utah State Legislature in 1967. Utah State University has conducted studies and proposed long term development master plans to the state of Utah, which have been approved in concept, to create residential and research campuses at each of its additional campuses throughout the State.

Located in Price, Utah, the former College of Eastern Utah joined the USU system in 2010 and became Utah State University College of Eastern Utah (USU Eastern). In 2013, the official name was shortened to Utah State University Eastern. USU Eastern operates a satellite campus, known as the Blanding campus, in Blanding, Utah. Before the acquisition, USU taught courses at the college through Regional Campuses and Distance Education (RCDE). USU Eastern is a junior college and offers associate degrees, certificates, and vocational programs. Bachelor's, master's, and doctoral courses, however, are available on site through RCDE. USU Eastern competes as the Eastern Utah Golden Eagles and is the only campus besides Logan with an athletics program.

Regional Campuses and Distance Education (RCDE) work to fulfill USU's land grant mission to increase access to high quality education throughout Utah. Regional campuses exist in Brigham City, Tooele, and the Uintah Basin (Vernal and Roosevelt). RCDE offers courses at Price and San Juan campuses that constituted the former College of Eastern Utah (now known as Utah State University Eastern). Distance Education operates 21 education centers throughout the state, including Moab, Kaysville, Ephraim, Orem, and Salt Lake City. At each of these locations, students may receive a wide selection of degrees without ever stepping foot on the Logan campus. Courses and degrees are also made available online through Distance Education. USU has a growing presence in Moab, with 295 students in 2011.

Started in 1914, Utah State University Cooperative Extension, referred to simply as Extension, provides research based, unbiased information to communities through their county offices and is an integral part of a land grant institution. Extension operates 30 offices throughout the state, which include Swaner EcoCenter, Thanksgiving Point, Utah State Botanical Center (Kaysville), Ogden Botanical Center, Bastian Equestrian and Agricultural Center (Salt Lake), and the Utah Botanical Center. With a focus on teaching, research, and public service, Extension programs include 4 H, agribusiness, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education, gardening and yard care, personal finance, and animal health.

USU's main academic, research, residential and innovation campus in Logan is situated on at the mouth of Logan Canyon. Notable structures include Maverik Stadium; the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum; Old Main, the college's first building; the Merrill Cazier Library, the main university library; and the Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall. The Logan City Cemetery splits much of the campus in half between largely the main academic campus (largely to the South of the cemetery) and the innovation and research campus (largely to the North of the cemetery). Buildings which constitute the residential, recreational and athletic campus are spread throughout the entirety of the property. To the South lie most academic buildings, and to the West and North are situated the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum and Merlin Olsen Field at Maverik Stadium, respectively. First Dam, the Logan Country Club, and the Utah Water Research Laboratory are located at the mouth of Logan Canyon and connect the canyon and the Cache National Forest, directly to the main university campus. In addition to the main campus, USU owns over 1,000 acres of property to the North and South of the campus that is situated in Cache County. These properties largely form both the current and future Innovation and Research Campus, agricultural centers, and research farms. Many other scientific and agricultural research buildings and several of USU's research farms are located even farther to both the North and South of Cache Valley, and also throughout the state of Utah. With over 30 of the largest species of trees in Utah and over 7,000 trees, Utah State University’s Logan campus has been recognized as an international arboretum through the ArbNet arboretum accreditation program. Nearby Logan Canyon is a popular recreation destination for students, with a system of trails and parks running along the river. First Dam, a small man made research reservoir operated by USU, is located on campus property and is a popular site for students and families for picnicking, paddle boarding, kayaking, and fishing. The Logan Country Club is also located directly adjacent to campus property and is home of the Utah State Aggies Mens Golf. In addition to camping and hiking, the canyon also serves as the primary route to nearby Beaver Mountain Ski Resort and Bear Lake. The university's Outdoor Recreation Program rents camping, water sports, mountain sports, and winter sports equipment to students, as well as providing them with area trail maps and expertise for their ventures into the canyon and elsewhere.

Formerly existing as a non degree granting institution within the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, the Caine College became a free standing college on July 1, 2010. The Caine College of the Arts houses the departments of Art & Design, Music, and Theatre Arts, along with the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Performance facilities include the Chase Fine Arts Center, which houses the Kent Concert Hall among other venues, and the free standing Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall, completed in 2006. The 400 seat Performance Hall, designed by the architectural firm Sasaki Associates, has been praised as one of the best acoustic performance spaces in the American West, and received an Honor Award from the Utah Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes and opened in 1982, contains one of the largest art collections in the Intermountain Region. Its holdings include nationally significant collections of ceramics, Native American art, and especially artworks produced in the American West since 1945. USU's music program includes opera singer Michael Ballam and the Fry Street Quartet, USU's string quartet in residence.

The College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences was the first academic college at USU and is known for ground breaking animal genetics and human nutrition and food science research, as well as other significant breakthroughs and global outreach in plants and soil science, animal science, veterinary science, and economics and applied agriculture. College researchers were instrumental in the creation of the first cloned equines (horses) in a project collaboration with researchers at the University of Idaho. The college is also a leader in the international project to classify and research the sheep genome. The College of Agriculture includes six departments: Applied Sciences, Technology & Education (Aviation Technology); Animal, Dairy & Veterinary Sciences; Applied Economics; Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning; Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Sciences; and Plants, Soils & Climate. The college is also home to Utah's first Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) program. The program is a regional program in collaboration with Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Each year, the program accepts 20 Utah residents and ten non Utah residents. Students spend their first two years receiving pre clinical training at USU's Logan campus. They spend their final two years at WSU's College of Veterinary Medicine in Pullman, Washington, completing their clinical portion of veterinary education. The College of Agriculture and applied sciences also houses Utah State's aviation, flight technology, and drone technology programs via its own fleet of aircraft hangared at the nearby Logan airport. In 2013, the college's name was changed from the College of Agriculture to the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences to reflect the broad nature of the college.

The Utah Water Research Laboratory is the oldest and largest facility of its kind in the nation. The lab heads and contributes to numerous international projects, particularly in arid Middle Eastern nations.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences teaches required core classes. The college houses eight departments and more than 30 programs. Departments include English, history, journalism and communication, languages, philosophy and speech communication, military science, political science, sociology, social work and anthropology. In the Humanities, USU has long history in the study of the American West. The university, through its departments of English and history, respectively, is the host institution for the scholarly journals Western American Literature and the Western Historical Quarterly, the official publications of the Western Literature Association and the Western History Association, respectively. Additionally, the Department of Journalism and Communication broadcasts weekly the award winning A TV News and publishes the student run Aggie BluePrint magazine. The Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, a Humanities outreach center at USU, sponsors public events and research focusing on the cultures and history of the Interior West and larger American West. University Special Collections and Archives, located at the Merrill Cazier Library, has extensive archival holdings documenting the histories of Utah, the Intermountain West, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, as well as one of the nation's largest collections pertaining to American folklore, and the lives and works of western authors such as Jack London and poet May Swenson, a Logan native and USU alumna. The college also houses the USU Museum of Anthropology, currently located in Old Main.

USU's Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services was founded in 1924 and has around 5,700 students. In 2023 2024, the college was ranked #36 (tie) for "Best Education Schools" by U. S. News & World Report The college is accredited by the American Psychological Association. Faculty are active in many of areas of research, including neuropsychology, child development, health psychology, behavior therapy, and quantitative psychology. Department of Psychology professor Karl R. White is director of the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management, which focuses on the early identification and intervention of hearing loss in infants and young children. USU is the only university in Utah with a Housing and financial Counseling program offered through the college's Family, Consumer, and Human Development Department. This program offers debt counseling, budget counseling, mortgage default prevention counseling, and reverse mortgage counseling through the USU Family Life Center, which also houses the Marriage & Family Therapy Clinic.

In 2007, Utah State's College of Business became the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business after a $26 million donation by philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr. The Huntsman School of Business is the oldest continuously operating business college in the Western United States. It offers several graduate and undergraduate degrees in fields including management, accounting, economics, finance, and management information systems (MIS). The bachelor's degree in international business is unique to USU within the state. The Huntsman School of Business also houses the Shingo Institute, an outreach program that develops executive education to be licensed and taught to leaders of organizations worldwide. The Shingo Institute also administers the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence. In 2011, the Utah Legislature approved funding for a new business building to be located south of the Eccles Business Building. The new building was funded by $36 million in private funds and $14 million in state funds. The building was completed in 2016 and includes classrooms, faculty offices, a business library, and three new business centers.

The college operates the Quinney Library, which houses collections relevant to natural resources education, management, and research. The college was formally renamed the S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources in 2012 after a $10 million donation was received by the S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation. The Quinneys were both graduates of USU (then the Agricultural College of Utah), and their foundation has supported the College of Natural Resources for 40 years, contributing more than $40 million in all.

As of Fall 2023, there were 28,063 students enrolled of whom 25,048 were undergraduate students and 3,015 were graduate students. Utah State has over 270 degree offerings, including: 137 undergraduate degrees, 95 master's degrees, and 39 doctoral degrees. Utah State has a 18.89 to 1 student to faculty ratio and an average undergraduate class size of 16.7 students. USU offers over 1,000 study abroad opportunities in 90 countries. According to Business Insider in 2015, USU was the 25th "Most Underrated College" in the United States. In 2017, MSN named Utah State University as the No. 1 school in the nation among 1,600 considered schools "based on affordability, flexibility, and other quantitative factors."

Utah State University is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Utah State has over 50 research insitutes and centers. Notable research centers based at USU include the Space Dynamics Laboratory, Bingham Energy Research Center, Center for Integrated Biosystems, Center for Growth and Opportunity, Center for Anticipatory Intelligence, Energy Dynamics Laboratory, The Stephen R. Covey Leadership Center, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Center for High Performance Computing, Ecology Center, Utah Climate Center, Center for Advanced Nutrition, Thanksgiving Point, Center for the School of the Future, National Aquatic Monitoring Center, Ogden Botanical Center, Swaner EcoCenter, Intermountain Center for River Rehabilitation and Restoration, Bastian Agricultural and Equestrian Center, Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management, The Shingo Institute, Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land Water and Air, and Utah Botanical Center. as of 2010, Utah State University has placed more student experiments into space than any educational institution in the world. In 2024, Utah State became a member of the U. S. Space Command Academic Engagement Enterprise.

USU's Undergraduate Research program was founded in 1975 making it the second program of its kind in the nation (i. e., second oldest after MIT); and, in 2021, was named the "Best Undergraduate Research Program in the Nation" by the Council on Undergraduate Research.

Since 2022, Utah State is home to the only college of veterinary medicine operating in the state of Utah. A team of USU and University of Idaho researchers were the first in the world to successfully clone an equine. The baby mule, named Idaho Gem, was born May 4, 2003. USU researchers made headlines in 2011 after breeding transgenic goats. Utah State University professor Randy Lewis' "spider goats", the milk of which contains spider silk, are being studied for uses including human muscle tissue and light weight bulletproof vests.

Utah State also owns and operates 14 separate research farms as well as several additional equestrian, agricultural, ecological, and botanical centers located through the state of Utah.

In 2010, Utah State received ownership of the more than $30 million Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter outside of Park City. The center consists of a land trust and a , state of the art facility dedicated to environmental education. The preserve protects critical wetland and foothill terrain in the heart of one of the state's fastest growing areas, and the EcoCenter, completed in 2009, is a multi use facility with space for educational and community activities. The facility is LEED Platinum Certified, the highest standard for design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.

Utah State University promotes the OpenCourseWare (OCW) Project (open and free university courses) and is developing an open content management system for OCW called eduCommons. This open source content management system is one of the important technology projects in the MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative. eduCommons aids in the creation of OCW sites and has already been adopted by several universities for this purpose.

Utah State University supports organized athletics within the varsity intercollegiate, club intercollegiate, and intramural categories. Since its founding in 1888, USU's varsity and club sports and its players have won 16 national championships.

Intramural sports are offered to students, faculty, and staff in connection with Aggie Recreation and various on and off campus resources and facilities.

Journals published by the university include Utah Science, Western Historical Quarterly, and Western American Literature. The Utah State University Press publishes works in composition studies, folklore, Mormon history, Native American studies, nature and environment, and western history. The Utah Statesman, or simply The Statesman, is the primary news outlet serving the USU student body. The Statesman is a student run paper with a faculty adviser. The paper is funded partly by a student fee of $2 per semester and partly by the sale of advertisements. The Statesman is published once a week and distributed free of charge to on campus locations and off campus in Downtown Logan. The Statesman won the Society for Professional Journalists's Best Column Writing award in 2002 and Best Non Daily Student Paper in 2005. Aggie Radio 92.3 KBLU LP, an entirely student run radio station, broadcasts to Cache Valley and online. Aggie Radio is the home of local, alternative, and independent music for USU students and the Cache Valley Community. Programming can be found online via RadioFX, with many of its podcasts available through major distributors. Aggie Radio is an affiliate of Learfield IMG College and broadcasts all of the Utah State University Football and Women's and Men's Basketball games throughout the season. Utah Public Radio, based at the university in the MDLS building, is heard on KUSU (91.5 FM) and KUSR (89.5 FM) in Logan and throughout Utah on a system of 26 translators. UPR broadcasts "a mix of information, public affairs, and fine arts programming." KUSU is a National Public Radio member station, and an affiliate of Public Radio International. Aggie Television (ATV) is a cable service lineup of approximately 110 channels offered free of charge to all on campus residents. ATV produces Crossroads, a bulletin/announcement channel, and Aggie Advantage, providing local and student video programming.