From Salt Lake City’s booming University of Utah — with record-breaking incoming and graduating classes — to small, rural Snow College, public higher education campuses enroll tens of thousands of students statewide every year.
Eight public schools join private Brigham Young University and Westminster University, plus a network of public technical colleges, in building Utah’s celebrated skilled workforce. Gov. Spencer Cox has tapped tech and business executives to set strategy for higher ed, and they’ve pledged to make education affordable, relevant and designed to meet varying needs, from certificates to degrees to opportunities to reskill.
Here’s a look at the 10 universities and two-year community colleges on the team.
University of Utah
The University of Utah is the state’s flagship research university, boasting the S.J. Quinney College of Law in a LEED…