Located in Minneapolis and Saint paul, Minnesota, The University of Minnesota is a private research university founded in the year 1851. The University of Minnesota has one of the largest campuses in the nation, it consists of 19 colleges, schools, and other various major academic units in its organisational structure such as Center for Allied Health programs, College of Biological sciences, School of Dentistry, Law School and many others. It stretches over an area of over 1200 acres and has almost 48,000 undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral Students. Getting your application selected at the university of Minnesota might be difficult as they have an acceptance rate of only 44%. A student has to be really good in studies to get his/her application selected. A minimum of 3.84 GPA has to be maintained to get an application selected in the University of Minnesota. A student has to be in the top of his/her class to maintain a GPA of 3.84. If a student wishes to apply through SATs he has to score in the range of 1270 to 1480. With students scoring above 1480 having a fairly high chance of getting their application selected. Students who want to apply through ACTs have to score in the range of 26 to 31. With students scoring above 31 having a greater chance for getting their application selected. The University of Minnesota is fairly decent when it comes to sport and athletics. The university's students take part in various sports such as Football, Basketball, Ice hockey, Rugby and many more.. University of Minnesota really has a good balance between Athletics and studies for its students.