University of Louisville is a public institution that was founded in 1798. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 15,727, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 345 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Louisville's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 161.

The University of Louisville is located in Kentucky on the banks of the Ohio River, about 100 miles from both Indianapolis and Cincinnati.