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The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is the largest in the... Commonwealth of Kentucky by enrollment, with 27,171 students, and is also the highest ranked research university in the state, according to U.S. News and World Report. The university is home to 16 colleges, a graduate school, 93 undergraduate programs, 99 master programs, 66 doctoral programs, and four professional programs. The University of Kentucky has fifteen libraries on campus. The largest is William T. Young Library, a federal depository, hosting subjects related to social sciences, humanities and life sciences collections. In recent years, the university has focused expenditures increasingly on research, following a compact formed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1997. The directive mandated that the university become a Top 20 public research institution, in terms of an overall ranking to be determined by the university itself, by the year 2020.
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Corydon is a city in Henderson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 744 at the 2000 census. Settled in 1848, the city is named for the hero of the song Pastoral Elegy. Corydon is located at 37°44′29″N 87°42′24″W / 37.74139°N... 87.70667°W / 37.74139; -87.70667 . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.5 square miles , all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 744 people, 271 households, and 204 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,393.6 people per square mile . There were 295 housing units at an average density of 552.6 per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 90.46% White, 9.01% Black or African American, 0.13% from other races, and 0.40% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.40% of the population. There were 271 households out of which 34.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.5% were married couples living together, 8.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.7% were non-families. 20.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.
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