where is the university of kentucky located at
University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK) is a public co-educational university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky,[7] the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities (the other being Kentucky State University), the largest college or university in the state, with 30,720[2] students as of Fall 2015, and the highest ranked research university in the state according to U.S. News and World Report.[3][8]