University of Minnesota Twin Cities

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is the flagship campus and one of five university campuses in the nation with schools of engineering, medicine, veterinary medicine, law, and agriculture all in one campus.

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Discover the Twin Cities

  • Recent Twin Cities graduate receives prestigious award for cultivating inclusivity on campus.
  • A student-run brand agency gives aspiring creatives on the Twin Cities campus real-world experience.
  • A College of Biological Sciences Ph.D. student talks about the importance of field work and why GRE scores should be dropped from the admissions process.
  • Students combine the classroom with the dirt pit to learn the nitty-gritty details about Minnesota’s soil.
  • U of M medical students lend a helping hand to frontline health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Twin Cities fast facts

  • 1851

    The year the Twin Cities campus was founded

  • Mascot:
    Goldy Gopher

  • Students come from all 50 states and 142 countries

  • Home to the largest collection of Sherlock Holmes materials in the world

  • The U of M’s C. Walton Lillehei completed the world’s first successful open-heart surgery