The University of New Hampshire is the largest element of New Hampshire’s state university system, located mainly around Durham, N.H., in the state’s Seacoast region. With over 15,000 students between several campuses, it is also the largest university in the state. The university’s Durham campus comprises six colleges, while a seventh college occupies the university’s campus in Manchester. The University of New Hampshire was founded and incorporated in 1866, as a land grant college in Hanover, moving to Durham in 1893. The school is one of only nine land, sea and space grant institutions in the nation. In 2012, UNH was named the 6th “coolest school” in the country by Sierra magazine for its efforts in sustainability.
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