University of North Dakota is a public institution that was founded in 1883. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 11,953, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 548 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of North Dakota's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 173. 

The University of North Dakota is located in the city of Grand Forks on the eastern edge of the state, just a few miles from the Minnesota border. Students at the University of North Dakota can study in nearly 300 academic fields, including graduate programs in business, law, engineering and education. The University of North Dakota, which is often abbreviated to UND, also has a highly ranked rural medicine program in its School of Medicine and Health Sciences.