University of Nevada-Reno Top Questions

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.