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What University of Utah grads actually do

Based on 853 notable University of Utah alumni with Wikipedia pages. Data: Wikidata (CC0).

politician
130
American football player
85
lawyer
75
writer
66
basketball player
60
university teacher
52
businessperson
34
priest
32
judge
31
poet
30
engineer
28
missionary
28

Notable University of Utah alumni

Parley Parker Christensen
Parley Parker Christensen
politician · Esperantist
Ken Gardner
Ken Gardner
basketball player
Mike Sojourner
Mike Sojourner
basketball player
Jerry Chambers
Jerry Chambers
basketball player
Edwin Catmull
Edwin Catmull
executive producer · computer scientist
Thomas King
Thomas King
actor · writer
Carlos Cardoen
Carlos Cardoen
scientist · engineer
George Albert Smith
George Albert Smith
prophet

Salary outlook for top University of Utah career paths

National median annual wage (BLS Occupational Employment Statistics).

politician
10th–90th percentile: $21,010$129,510
$47,290
median / yr
lawyer
10th–90th percentile: $69,760$239,200
$145,760
median / yr
writer
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr
basketball player
10th–90th percentile: $27,730$239,200
$70,280
median / yr
businessperson
10th–90th percentile: $80,000$239,200
$206,680
median / yr
engineer
10th–90th percentile: $62,130$177,020
$111,970
median / yr

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About University of Utah

The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education. The university received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900. It is the flagship university of the Utah System of Higher Education. As of fall 2024, there were 28,064 undergraduate students and 8,817 graduate students, for an enrollment total of 36,881, making it the second-largest public university in Utah. Graduate studies include the S.J. Quinney College of Law and the School of Medicine, Utah's first medical school. It is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation, the university received $723.7 million in research and development funding in fiscal year 2023, ranking it 47th in the nation. The university's health care system includes four hospitals, including the University of Utah Hospital and Huntsman Cancer Institute, along with twelve community clinics and specialty centers such as the Moran Eye Center. The university's athletic teams, the Utes, participate in NCAA Division I athletics (FBS for football) as a member of the Big 12 Conference. Twenty-two Rhodes Scholars, four Nobel Prize winners, three Turing Award winners, eight MacArthur Fellows, various Pulitzer Prize winners, two astronauts, Gates Cambridge Scholars, and Churchill Scholars have been affiliated with the university as students, researchers, or faculty members in its history.

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

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