University of Nevada-Reno Top Questions

Being located in Reno, we are known for being a party campus in a party town. The Nevada Wolfpack is known on a national scale for a few reasons. Our football and basketball teams have had a decent amount of success and our mascot Wolfie Jr. won Capitol One's mascot of the year in 2011. Our engineering and business programs are nationally recognized, particularly mining engineering, and the nursing and medical programs are also excellent. The quality of this school is underrated and overlooked by most, but is really an excellent university to attend.

it has the bigest labratory in the field of Civil Engineering-Structural in US.

I believe our school is best known for its Criminal Justice School. It also has a very good Medical School that is widely known.

The Engineering deparment is among the best of the best in the country, I believe the Civil Engineering department is in the top 25 in the nation. It's hard to answer this question because I attend UNR, so I do not know what the rest of the nation thinks of the university.

The University of Nevada, Reno is best known for its science programs and research.

Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering and the Anthropology/Archaeology program.

Nevada is a college that thrives in not just one area, but many. The Nevada school of medicine ranks among the top 100 in the country at number 92. They have a extremly competitive nursing program that attracts people from all over the country. In additon, the College of Engineering is ranked at 138 in the nation, making Nevada diverse in many aspects of academics. In athletics, Neavda competes ompetitively at the NCAA Division 1 level. Nevada also has state of the art facilities. The Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center is one of the most technologically advanced libraries in the country.

The University of Nevada-Reno is a prideful wolf pack of enthusiastic students! It is one of the oldest most prestigious universities in Nevada on a beautiful campus. Students take great pride in representing it by getting involved, supporting sporting events, and studying hard together in the Knowledge Center. It is an acedemic expert in seismology, geology, geodesy and civil engineering but has many colleges and schools offered: Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources; Business; Education; Engineering; Journalism; Liberal Arts; Medicine; Graduate School; and the Division of Health Sciences.

Our football team and our academics. During my years at UNR our football team was nationally ranked, which was very exciting. It brought the entire community together and we are stronger for it. Also, our academics are amazing. I have had some of the best professors I could have ever hoped for. They have made me passionate about my future career.

My school is best known for the pride and involvement that comes from all the students that attend. We are known for all our great sports, including football, and the great educational opportunities, including the medical programs and studying abroad. The university is also known for it's historic beautiful, historic, brick buildings and excellent location next to Lake Tahoe and the mountains that surround the campus. It is known for the experience of meeting new people and giving students the chance to grow and be successful in college.

My school is best known for our athletics as well as our academics. We are also known as a school located near the mountains with a beautiful and breathtaking view of our regal mountains The school is also located in a friendly city that is currently reconstructing highways as well as new residency halls for the University.

To the common public that never attended the University of Nevada, the more common things heard about are the sports and tradtions. To those who haven't attended or worked at the University, they see the wins and fails of our popular sport teams. Our mascot Wolfie just won the Capitol One Mascot Challenge and was a great fight for my team. My Cheer team is very close with the mascots and we are very proud of them. If a person was once a wolf pack, the school would be best known for the friendships, spirit, and memories created there.

My school is bet known for being a technical college, most of the people i have talked to are either engineering majors or biochemistry,

football games and drinking.

Our school spirit. The majority of the time on campus you will see everyone wearing school based clothing. We have a great campus life with constant events going on for students. Campus life at UNR is probably one of the things that i enjoy the most about this school. it is so easy to make friends and join many clubs/greek comm. Everyone is just friendly and open minded and always willing to help. We take pride in being a wolf pack.

Univeristy of Nevada-Reno apparently has an amazing School of Journalism that is renowned nation wide. However since this recently renuvated college has no influence on my major in Biochemistry, I would say that we are best known for our School of Medicine. Millions of dollars have just been put into the School of Medicine in Reno making it one of the most technoligically advanced medcal schools in the country. Either one of these options, School of Journalism or Medicine, is well known, but since I am pre-med, I am biased towards the School of Medicine.

For its number of graduating and successful students.

I believe our school is best known for its history and continuing legacy. The university orginally started out in Elko, Nevada in 1874. After seeing that Reno was the booming down the university moved to Reno and built the first building on campus Moral Hall in 1886. We also have to oldest running resident hall west of the Mississippi, Lincoln Hall a boys only resident hall which was built in 1896. Manzanita Hall was also built in 1896 an all girls resident hall, it is also still being used. Our legacy continues through our brillant students and highly educated staff.

I believe our school is best known for athletics, and the science researches.

We have nationally known experts in seismology, geology, geodesy and civil engineering, the University is also home to one of the largest earthquake-simulation labs. The Master of Business Administration degree program is ranked in the top 20 nationally by BusinessWeek magazine and also one of the most affordable. We have a pretty successful football team. We're the seventeenth in the national rankings, and the football team is tenth in graduation rates among the top 25-ranked teams in the nation. Our natural resources make for a perfect "playground" for research: mining, the lake, the desert, developing wind energy.