The University of Delaware (colloquially UD or Delaware) is a public research university located in Newark, Delaware. With it's main campus in Newark and satellite campuses in Dover, Wilmington, Lewes and Georgetown, it is consicered a large institution with aprroxmimately 18,500 untergraduate and 4,500 graduate students.
UD is classified as a Doctoral University-Very High Research Activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. UD is one of the top 100 public institutions for federal obligations in science and engineering and interdisciplinary initiatives in energy science and policy, the environment, and in human health.
