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About University of Dayton
The University of Dayton, also known as simply UD, is a private Roman Catholic university operated by the Society of Mary, located in Dayton, which is the county seat of Montgomery County, in the US state of Ohio, and the 4th most populous county in the state, having a population estimated at a number of more than 166 000 inhabitants, during the 2000 census, when The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is the 4th largest metropolitan area in Ohio and the 61st largest Metropolitan Area in USA, had a number of more than 1 million people, living within its limits.
UD traces its roots back in 1849, when Rev. Leo Meyer purchased the university’s future land, one year later, UD being founded as a day school and boarding school for boys, starting under the name of St. Mary’s School for Boys, which later became St. Mary’s Institute, UD adopting its current name in 1920, 7 years after the city of Dayton suffered a massive flooding when the Great Miami River overflowed. In 1937 the university became coeducational, being the first coeducational Roman Catholic university in the United States.
Since it first opened its doors to students, UD significantly grew, being today one of the ten largest Catholic schools in the United States and the largest of the three Marianist universities in the nation. It is also home to one of the largest campus ministry programs in the world and it offers more than 70 academic programs in business administration, arts and sciences, engineering and law, education and allied professions, also being the 1st in the country to offer an undergraduate degree program in human rights. Over the years, the university has been highly ranked by numerous significant publications, such as The Princeton Review, which named its entrepreneurship program top 5 in the nation, UD also being placed in the top 10 of Entrepreneur magazine’s ‘’Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges for 2005’’.
Its athletic teams are known as the Dayton Flyers, who compete in the Atlantic Ten Conference in all sports except football, in which they compete in the Pioneer Football League. The Flyers basketball team is one of the biggest sports attractions in the Dayton area, the Flyers being ranked in the NCAA Division I top 30 in basketball attendance, the basketball team holding a 13-15 all time NCAA tournament record, reaching the NCAA finals against UCLA in 1967 and winning the NIT in 1962, 1968, and 2010, to name a few of their most significant achievements.
Among the most resonant names, on the list of notable alumni, there are: Joseph Desch - creator of decoding machine to crack Nazi Enigma code in World War II, Bill Klesse - CEO of Valero Energy, Charles J. Pedersen - Organic chemist; winner of 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Jerry Blevins - Major League Baseball pitcher for the Oakland A’s, and John E. Leland - Director of the University of Dayton Research Institute, among others.
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