first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General Assembly to be a "Preeminent Metropolitan Research University".
The University of Louisville School of Medicine is touted for the first fully self-contained artificial heart transplant surgery as well as the first successful hand transplantation.
The University Hospital is also credited with the first civilian ambulance, the nation's first accident services, now known as an emergency room ER, and one of the first blood banks in the US.
Between 1999 and 2006 was one of the fastest growing medical research institutions according to National Institutes of Health rankings
As of 2006, the melanoma clinic ranked third in among public universities in NIH funding and the spinal cord research program 10th
is also known for its athletics programs, several of which are among the most successful in the country. Since 2005 the Cardinals have made appearances in the NCAA Division I men's basketball Final Four in 2005, 2012, and championship football Bowl Championship Series Orange Bowl in 2007 champion sand
Sugar Bowl in 2013 champions the College Baseball World Series 2007, 2013, and 2014, the women's basketball Final Four in 2009 runner-up and gunrunner-up, and the men's soccer national championship game in 2010.
women's volleyball program of the Big East Tournament 2008, 2009, 2010 and its women's track and field program has won Outdoor Big East titles in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and an Indoor Big East title in
The University of Louisville traces its roots to a charter granted in 1798 by the Kentucky General Assembly to establish a school of higher learning in the newly founded town of Louisville. It ordered the sale of 6,000 acres 24 km of South Central Kentucky land to underwrite construction, joined on April 3, 1798 by eight
community leaders who began local fund raising for what was then known as the Jefferson Seminary. It opened 15 years later and offered college and high school level courses in a variety of subjects. It was headed by Edward Mann Butler from 1813 to 1816, who later ran the first public school in Kentucky in 1829 and is considered Kentucky's first historian.
Despite the Jefferson Seminary's early success, pressure from newly established public schools and media critiques of it as "elitist" would force its closure in 1829
Eight years later, in 1837, the Louisville City council established the Louisville Medical Institute at the urging of renowned physician and medical author Charles Caldwell. As he had
earlier at Lexington's Transylvania University, Caldwell rapidly led into becoming one of the leading medical schools west of the Allegheny Mountains. In 1840, the Louisville Collegiate institute, a rival medical school, was established after an
faculty dispute. It opened in 1844 on land near the present day Health sciences campus.
Talk of U of L joining the public university system of Kentucky began in the 1960s. As a municipally funded school meaning funding only came from the city of Louisville the movement of people to the suburbs of Louisville created budget shortfalls for the school and forced tuition prices to levels for most students.
At the same time, the school's well established medicine and law schools were seen as assets for the state system. Still, there was opposition to U of L becoming public, both from faculty and alumni who feared losing the small, close-knit feel of the campus,
and from universities already in the state system who feared funding cuts. After several years of heated debate, the university joined the state system in 1970, a move largely orchestrated by then Kentucky governor and U of L alumnus Louie .
The first years in the public system were difficult, as enrollment skyrocketed while funding was often insufficient. Several programs were threatened with losing accreditation due to a lack of funding, although schools of understanding urban & public affairs 1983 were added.
John W. was named U of L's president in 1995. was a very successful fund raiser, and quickly increased the school's endowment from $183 to $550 million. He developed the REACH program
to encourage retention. In 1997, he hired athletics director Tom , who restored the athletics program and raised over $100 million to raze abandoned factories and old parking lots next to campus and replace them with on-campus athletic facilities, which vastly improved the aesthetics of the
Campus. Academically, U of L moved closer to parity with the state's flagship University of Kentucky as retention rates and research funding increased, and average and ACT scores were much higher for incoming freshman.
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