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What University of Kentucky grads actually do

Based on 947 notable University of Kentucky alumni with Wikipedia pages. Data: Wikidata (CC0).

basketball player
235
American football player
141
politician
138
lawyer
81
basketball coach
53
baseball player
53
university teacher
43
writer
34
judge
26
journalist
22
association football player
21
actor
19

Notable University of Kentucky alumni

Donald Fowler
Donald Fowler
political scientist · university teacher
John Albert Whitaker
John Albert Whitaker
lawyer · politician
John B. Breckinridge
John B. Breckinridge
lawyer · politician
John C. Watts
John C. Watts
lawyer · politician
Jimmy Dan Conner
Jimmy Dan Conner
basketball player
Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd
stage actor · film actor
Douglas W. Owsley
Douglas W. Owsley
archaeologist · anthropologist
Elizabeth Gould Davis
Elizabeth Gould Davis
writer · librarian

Salary outlook for top University of Kentucky career paths

National median annual wage (BLS Occupational Employment Statistics).

basketball player
10th–90th percentile: $27,730$239,200
$70,280
median / yr
politician
10th–90th percentile: $21,010$129,510
$47,290
median / yr
lawyer
10th–90th percentile: $69,760$239,200
$145,760
median / yr
baseball player
10th–90th percentile: $27,730$239,200
$70,280
median / yr
writer
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr
journalist
10th–90th percentile: $31,550$160,360
$57,500
median / yr

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About University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities (the other being Kentucky State University). It is the institution with the highest enrollment in the state, with 35,952 students in the fall of 2024. The institution comprises 16 colleges and offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across a wide range of disciplines. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research spending and doctorate production". According to the National Science Foundation, Kentucky spent $476.5 million on research and development in 2022, ranking it 61st in the nation. The University of Kentucky has seven libraries on campus. The largest is the William T. Young Library, a federal depository that hosts subjects related to social sciences, humanities, and life sciences collections. The university also hosts the Linguistic Atlas Project, an archive of American English dialect survey materials housed in the College of Arts & Sciences. Since 1997, the university has focused expenditures increasingly on research, following a compact formed by the Kentucky General Assembly. The directive mandated that the university become a "Top 20" public research institution, in terms of an overall ranking to be determined by the university itself, by 2020. Two alumni from the university have won Nobel Prizes.

Source: Wikipedia · Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

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