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Education organization in Utah, United States

The Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) is the public university system of the state of Utah. It includes each of the state's sixteen public institutions of higher education, including its eight technical colleges.

On March 21, 1969, the Utah State Legislature passed the Utah Higher Education Act of 1969, establishing the Utah System of Higher Education and its governing body, the State Board of Higher Education, to govern Utah's (at the time) nine institutions of higher learning, as well as administer the federal Higher Education Act of 1965. In 1977, an amendment was passed to rename the board to the Utah State Board of Regents, as well as increase its membership to sixteen, with provisions for appointing of a student member. Subsequently, a 1981 amendment further increased this number to seventeen, with the seventeenth member being the Lieutenant Governor of Utah. In 2020, the Utah System of Technical Colleges was subsumed into the USHE, with the Utah State Board of Regents being renamed to the Utah Board of Higher Education. Today, the board consists of 10 Utah citizens, all of whom are appointed by the Governor of Utah, one of whom is a Student Board member. Each board member is appointed to six year staggered term, with the exception of student board members, who are appointed to one year terms.

CampusLocationFoundedEnrollmentEndowmentAthleticsAffiliationNicknameSouthern Utah UniversityCedar City189711,224 $29.9 million (2019)NCAA Div IWACThunderbirds University of UtahSalt Lake City185032,818$1.07 billion (2020)NCAA Div IPac 12UtesUtah State UniversityLogan188827,426$427.4 million (2020)NCAA Div IMountain WestAggies Utah Tech UniversitySt. George191111,193$16.3 million (2019)NCAA Div IWACTrailblazers Utah Valley UniversityOrem194141,728$39.8 million (2019)NCAA Div IWACWolverines Weber State UniversityOgden188926,681$155.2 million (2020)NCAA Div IBig SkyWildcats