The University of Arizona Graduate School:
The University of Arizona Graduate School, located in Tucson, in the Sonoran desert of Southern Arizona, offers extensive opportunities to pursue Graduate Degree Programs in Engineering and other career fields. The University of Arizona is one of the nation's top 20 public research institutions, enabling graduate students to work with leading researchers and providing an ideal environment for graduate study. We place high priority on interdisciplinary studies, we strongly promote intellectual and cultural diversity, and we encourage international exchange. All of these add important value to graduate degrees from our institution.
The University of Arizona is located in Tucson, a city of 750,000 inhabitants, 60 miles from the U.S. border with Mexico, a growing economic and recreational center with a multicultural population that reflects the richness of the Southwest. The city shares common borders with the Tohono O'odham and the Pasqua Yaqui Indian Nations, and is surrounded by majestic desert and rugged mountains rising to more than 9,000 feet. Southern Arizona has more than three hundred days of sunshine per year, more than any other region in the U.S.