32 Facts About BYU

BYU offers a variety of academic programs, including liberal arts, engineering, agriculture, management, physical and mathematical sciences, nursing, and law.

Origin of BYU can be traced back to 1862, when Warren Dusenberry started a Provo school in Cluff Hall, a prominent adobe building in the northeast corner of 200 East and 200 North.

BYU had not received a high school education until he was forty.

BYU was succeeded by Howard S McDonald, who received a doctorate from the University of California.

BYU did not have the facilities to handle such a large influx, so he bought part of an Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah and rebuilt it to house some of the students.

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BYU believed one of the school's greatest strengths was its religious nature and that this should be taken advantage of, rather than hidden.

BYU has on-campus housing communities for freshmen students as well as for students 19 years and older.

Branches of the BYU Creamery provide basic food and general grocery products for students living in Heritage Halls, Helaman, Wymount, Wyview, and the FLSR.

BYU has designated energy conservation, products and materials, recycling, site planning and building design, student involvement, transportation, water conservation, and zero waste events as top priority categories in which to further its efforts to be an environmentally sustainable campus.

BYU Recycles spearheaded the recent campaign to begin recycling plastics, which the university did after a year of student campaigning.

BYU manages some courses and majors through the David M Kennedy Center for International Studies and "miscellaneous" college departments, including Undergraduate Education, Graduate Studies, Independent Study, Continuing Education, and the Honors Program.

The racial composition of students at BYU are overwhelmingly non-Hispanic white, and BYU is one of the whitest universities in the United States.

In 2004, a National Bureau of Economic Research study on revealed preference of U S colleges showed BYU was the 6th most-preferred choice in the Intermountain West, between Princeton and Brown.

BYU is designated as a research university with high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

In prestigious scholarships, BYU has produced 10 Rhodes Scholars, four Gates Scholars in the last six years, and in the last decade has claimed 41 Fulbright scholars and 3 Jack Kent Cooke scholars.

BYU offers courses in over 60 different languages, many with advanced courses that are seldom offered elsewhere.

BYU offers an intensive foreign language living experience, the Foreign Language Student Residence.

BYU has received attention from sports networks for refusal to play games on Sunday, as well as expelling players due to honor code violations.

In basketball, BYU has had several standout basketball players including 2011 Naismith College Player of the Year Jimmer Fredette and 1981 John R Wooden Award winner Danny Ainge.

Over 900 rooms on the BYU campus are used for the purposes of Church congregations.

BYU has regularly been ranked among the most LGBT-unfriendly schools in the United States, and its policies towards LGBTQ students have sparked criticism and protests.

BYU launched a review of the practice, which concluded in October 2016.

BYU was ranked by The Princeton Review in 2008 as 14th in the nation for having the happiest students and highest quality of life.

BYU sponsored a question-answering service known as the "100 Hour Board" where anyone with an account could ask a question, with topics ranging from academic questions to questions about relationships or church doctrine, and it was answered in 100 hours by pseudo-anonymous BYU students.

The BYU Broadcasting Technical Operations Center is home to three television production studios, two television control rooms, radio studios, radio performance space, and master control operations.

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BYU Today is the magazine's email newsletter, distributed twice a month.

Over 21 BYU graduates have served in the U S Senate and U S House of Representatives, such as former Dean of the U S Senate, Reed Smoot and former President pro tempore of the United States Senate Orrin Hatch.

Additionally, alumni of BYU who have served as business leaders include Gary Crittenden, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins, and Deseret Book CEO Sheri L Dew.

In literature and journalism, BYU has produced several best-selling authors, including Orson Scott Card, Brandon Sanderson, Stephenie Meyer and Tara Westover .

BYU graduated American activist and contributor for ABC News Elizabeth Smart-Gilmour.

In baseball, BYU alumni include All-Stars Rick Aguilera, Wally Joyner, and Jack Morris, .

In golf, BYU alumni include two major championship winners: Johnny Miller at the 1973 U S Open and 1976 British Open, and Mike Weir at the 2003 Masters.