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98-471: The conference was popularly known as the "Metro 6" during its first season, then as the "Metro 7" during the rest of the 1970s and early 1980s. For most of its existence, it was considered a "major" conference. The Metro Conference was founded in 1975 with institutions that were located in urban metropolitan areas. The charter members were the University of Cincinnati , Georgia Institute of Technology ,

196-722: A broader range of materials. In 2010, UC recycled just over 4,600 tons of material, which was a 23 percent increase over the previous year. Admission to the University of Cincinnati is classified as "selective" in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education . The Princeton Review gives Cincinnati an "Admissions Selectivity Rating" of 85 out of 99. The college extends offers of admission to 87.7% of all applicants after holistic review that includes examination of academic rigor, performance and admissions test scores. Of all matriculating students,

294-772: A degree, allows certain disabled adults to take classes, interact with other students, and intern at companies. After four years, participants receive a certificate of completion. The University of Cincinnati was one of the first universities in the country to be classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a Community Engagement focused university and was one of only 35 research universities on this list. Student Activities & Leadership Development (SALD) oversees over 550 registered student organizations ranging from student government to religious organizations to spirit groups. Housed in

392-552: A four-year public school to move upward in athletic classification, including FCS to FBS. The legislative committee that must review the move did not meet until November 5, after the state's gubernatorial election . The committee unanimously approved JMU's move from FCS to FBS, and the Sun Belt move was officially announced on November 6. The original Action Network report also stated that the two full non-football SBC members, Little Rock and UT Arlington, would no longer be members of

490-524: A host firm, giving students over one year of relevant work experience by the time they graduate. All programs in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, Architecture programs, all design programs in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, and Information Technology in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, require co-operative education experience to graduate. Each year UC welcomes roughly 375 students, or usually

588-507: A leading urban research university. In addition, it includes putting liberal arts education at the center, increasing research funding, and expanding involvement in the city. In 2009, Gregory H. Williams was named the 27th president of the University of Cincinnati. His presidency expanded the accreditation and property of the institution to regions throughout Ohio to compete with private and specialized state institutions, such as Ohio State University . His administration focused on maintaining

686-681: A live polio vaccine and diphenhydramine . UC was also the first university to implement a co-operative education (co-op) model. The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is classified as "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" . UC's athletic teams are called the Cincinnati Bearcats and compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I as

784-756: A member of the Big 12 Conference . In 1819, Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio were founded in Cincinnati. Local benefactor Daniel Drake founded and funded the Medical College of Ohio. William Lytle of the Lytle family donated the land, funded the Cincinnati College and Law College, and served as its first president. The college survived only six years before financial difficulties forced it to close. In 1835, Daniel Drake reestablished

882-547: A member of the non-football West Coast Conference , effective in 2023. The American in turn responded on October 21 by adding six schools from Conference USA (C-USA), with 2023 as the most likely entry date. Following this move, rumors began to circulate that the Sun Belt was planning to take on another three members (the University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss or USM), Marshall University , and former Sun Belt member Old Dominion University ) from C-USA, likely in response to that conference's remaining teams worried of

980-593: A men's soccer affiliate when that school joined the Big 12 Conference in 2023. In men's soccer, the conference is not a "mid-major" conference, but a "power" conference due to the quasi-alliance of the Big 12 and SEC schools, plus the presence of a recent national champion in Marshall. On June 6, the SBC presidents & chancellors approved adding two new women's sports, beach volleyball and swimming & diving, no later than

1078-641: A part of the university since 1840. There are over 2,500 students participating in fraternities and sororities, which represents approximately 11% of the undergraduate population (Uptown Campus). 52 chapters have called UC home over the years, and currently includes 39 social fraternities and sororities: 21 Interfraternity Council fraternities, nine Panhellenic Council sororities, seven National Pan-Hellenic Council (three fraternities and four sororities), and two non-affiliated (Delta Phi Lambda and Phi Sigma Rho ) organizations. The university competes in 19 Division I (NCAA) sports, and its athletics teams are known as

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1176-706: A points shaving scandal. Ultimately, West Virginia officials decided to remain in the Atlantic 10 Conference . In 1991, Florida State joined the ACC, and then South Carolina joined the Southeastern Conference . However, South Carolina re-joined the Metro for 1993 and 1994 men's soccer seasons in that sport only, because the SEC did not (and still does not) offer the sport for men (four schools were required to sponsor

1274-707: A residence hall in the summer of 2009. The Center for First-Year Experience provides leadership for each student's first-year experience and related academic program. The center serves as a resource for all the university's undergraduate colleges and programs. The program is a collaboration between UC colleges, academic programs, and student groups and is designed to help freshmen with the transition from high school to college. Learning communities are groups of about 20–25 students as well as faculty. Students take two classes together throughout their first year on campus, based on their major or area of study. There are nearly 120 learning communities to choose from. They are offered in

1372-544: A sport; the SEC had just three, now two). Charter members Cincinnati and Memphis State also left the Metro in 1991 to become charter members of the Great Midwest. To replace them, three of the stronger non-football schools from the Sun Belt Conference (the University of North Carolina at Charlotte , the University of South Florida and Virginia Commonwealth University ) shifted to the Metro. In 1993,

1470-434: A variety of surveys and polls on public opinion throughout Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, primarily through telephone surveys. The University of Cincinnati is the originator of the co-operative education (Co-Op) model. The concept was invented at UC in 1906 by Herman Schneider , Dean of the College of Engineering at the time. The program generally consists of alternating semesters of coursework on campus and outside work at

1568-516: Is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation , UC spent $ 480 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 54th in the nation. The University of Cincinnati has 13 libraries, which are housed in 11 different facilities. The university library system has holdings of over 4 million volumes and 70,000 periodicals. The average circulation

1666-514: Is Old Dominion, which won one title in women's basketball and five in the non-SBC sport of field hockey during its first conference tenure from 1982 to 1991. Six other current members have won NCAA Division I team championships prior to joining the conference. Coastal Carolina won its only D-I national title on the day before it officially joined the SBC, while representing the Big South Conference. See also: List of NCAA schools with

1764-622: Is a public research university in Cincinnati , Ohio, United States. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College , it is the second oldest institution of higher education in the Cincinnati area (behind Miami University ) and has an annual enrollment of over 50,000 students, making it the second largest university in Ohio. It is part of the University System of Ohio . The university's primary uptown campus and medical campus are located in

1862-420: Is a shuttle that runs between this and main campus throughout the day. UC Online offers over 120 graduate, undergraduate and certificate programs through an online distance education platform. The university has had a strategic plan for the last decade for new architecture to be built by "signature architects." In recent years, the university has received attention from architects and campus planners as one of

1960-579: Is an apartment community owned and operated by the university. It is located close to the Academic Health Center (AHC) and medical campus. Two off-campus university-affiliated (but not university-managed) housing options were introduced in 2005: Stratford Heights and University Park Apartments. All leases in the Stratford Heights housing area have been terminated, and control of the housing complex reverted to University control as

2058-540: Is an independent, student-run newspaper and not attached to any academic program; therefore any student, regardless of program, is able to apply and work for the newspaper. A student-run radio station named Bearcast is housed in the College-Conservatory of Music on campus. The programming streams online as opposed to a traditional radio station and, like the News Record , is open to any student attending

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2156-529: Is around 451,815 items and 116,532 reference transactions. The University of Cincinnati is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and the OhioLINK consortium of libraries. 6,500 students live on campus in ten residence halls that offer both traditional and suite style options. Students also have the option to live in themed housing, which include honors, business, and STEM -specific floors. In

2254-412: The 2021–22 NCAA conference realignment , Conference USA lost almost all of their men's soccer members and was consequently forced to drop the sport. South Carolina, Kentucky and West Virginia joined the Sun Belt Conference in men's soccer. The Metro Conference also had studies into a new " Super conference " in 1990. The study was conducted by Raycom Sports. The conference would have included members of

2352-487: The American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment , which confirms the university's dedication to reducing its environmental impact and take the necessary steps to become climate neutral. In 2010, UC opened up a privately funded athletic practice facility and women's lacrosse stadium named Sheakley Athletic Complex. As a continued effort to go green, a chilled water thermal energy storage tank

2450-603: The Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music was acquired by the university. The Ohio legislature in Columbus declared the university a "municipally-sponsored, state-affiliated" institution in 1968. During this time, the University of Cincinnati was the second oldest and second-largest municipal university in the United States. In 1971, the university became one of the first institutions in

2548-534: The Heights and Corryville neighborhoods, with branch campuses located in Batavia and Blue Ash, Ohio . The university has 14 constituent colleges, with programs in architecture , business , education , engineering , humanities, the sciences , law , music , and medicine . The medical college includes a leading teaching hospital and several biomedical research laboratories, with developments made including

2646-537: The Mid-American Conference ). Additionally, it was announced that Kentucky , South Carolina , and West Virginia would join as men's soccer affiliate members beginning in fall 2022, giving the conference an inaugural soccer membership of 9. Kentucky and South Carolina were previously also affiliated with C-USA, while West Virginia was affiliated with the MAC. The SBC later announced it would add UCF as

2744-571: The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1961 and 1962, both times against the Ohio State Buckeyes . Charles Keating won the 1946 200-meter butterfly national title for UC as a member of the men's swimming team, and, most recently, Josh Schneider did the same in the 50-yard (46 m) freestyle in 2010. In women's diving, Pat Evans (3 m dive – 1989) and Becky Ruehl (10 m dive – 1996) have brought home titles for

2842-829: The Northern Kentucky University (NKU) on July 1, 1993. This campus contains nineteen buildings on 57 acres (230,000 m ) in the Corryville neighborhood of Cincinnati. It is located diagonal to West campus on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The undergraduate colleges of Allied Health Sciences and Nursing, the graduate colleges of Medicine, and the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy are located there. The hospitals located there include University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center , Cincinnati VA Medical Center, and

2940-870: The Southern Conference on July 1, 2014. Both schools had been very successful within the Football Championship Subdivision, combining to win nine national championships since 1985. They upgraded to the Football Bowl Subdivision, and were eligible for Sun Belt conference championships in 2014, but were not postseason-eligible in football until 2015. The Sun Belt also granted football-only invites to Idaho and New Mexico State on March 28, 2013. Idaho and New Mexico State were both former Sun Belt members (Idaho for football only, New Mexico State for all sports) from 2001 to 2005. The large number of defections from

3038-653: The Southland Conference in 2013.) On April 9, 2012, Georgia State, one of the founding members of the Sun Belt Conference, announced that it would be returning to the conference as a full member in 2013. As part of the move, the football program began a transition from FCS to FBS in the 2012 season; it played a full Sun Belt schedule as a "transitional" FBS member in 2013, and became a full FBS member, with bowl eligibility, in 2014. On May 2, 2012, Texas State University announced it would leave

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3136-669: The Sun Belt Championship game . Following the July 30, 2021 announcement of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oklahoma both moving from the Big 12 Conference to the Southeastern Conference , the world of college athletics faced the prospect of realignment once again. The Big 12 responded on September 10 by adding three schools from the American Athletic Conference (The American) and BYU , an FBS independent and otherwise

3234-497: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette ), the University of Texas–Pan American (now merged into the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ), New Orleans (re-joined), Lamar University , and the University of Central Florida . Although the American South was the larger conference, the merged league retained the Sun Belt name. In 1991, the league first began to explore the idea of sponsoring football. Central Florida left

3332-603: The University of Louisville , Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis ), Saint Louis University and Tulane University . Florida State University joined in 1976, while the University of South Carolina turned down an invitation in hopes of rejoining the Atlantic Coast Conference (which the Gamecocks departed at the end of the 1970–71 athletic season when the ACC adopted more stringent entrance requirements). In 1978, Georgia Tech left

3430-469: The WAC after just one year and join the Sun Belt in July 2013 to begin play for the 2013–14 academic year. At the press conference to announce Texas State's addition, Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson also hinted that more changes could be on the way for the conference. On May 25, 2012, the conference announced that the University of Texas at Arlington (a non-football member) had accepted an invitation to join

3528-593: The WAC forced that conference to drop football after the 2012 season. Idaho and New Mexico State were the only remaining WAC members that sponsored football, and competed as FBS independents for the 2013 season before competing in the Sun Belt in 2014. Idaho is located by far the farthest away from the other Sun Belt conference members, but it was rejected by the Mountain West Conference , leaving it with no other choice. On September 1, 2015, Coastal Carolina University accepted an invitation to join

3626-679: The "Bearcats". Since July 1, 2023, have been members of the Big 12 Conference . They were previously members of the American Athletic Conference (The American), Big East Conference , Conference USA (of which they were a founding member), the Great Midwest Conference , the Metro Conference, and the Mid-American Conference , among others. The university hosts various club sports, some of which are distinguished as Club Varsity. Some include

3724-582: The "on-campus" housing student population higher. UC's largest residence hall, Calhoun, was recently renovated, being finished in January 2023. Neighbors to Calhoun, Siddall Hall closed for renovation in December 2023 and is set to reopen in August 2024. UC Housing & Food Services manages ten undergraduate residence halls . The university also offers limited housing to graduate students. Bellevue Gardens

3822-477: The 1990–91 basketball season, all members of the Sun Belt, except Western Kentucky, South Alabama, and Jacksonville, departed for other conferences. The Sun Belt, including incoming member the University of Arkansas at Little Rock , then merged with the American South Conference , made up of Arkansas State University , Louisiana Tech University , the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now

3920-487: The 2005–06 academic year. In 2005, Florida Atlantic became a football-only member before joining for all sports in the 2006-07 academic year. In 2006, Louisiana–Monroe joined the conference as an all-sports full member when the Warhawks left their former home, the Southland Conference . Longtime Sun Belt member Western Kentucky joined the Sun Belt's football conference in 2009 after its board of regents voted to upgrade

4018-531: The 2022 expansion, with the new dividing line being the Alabama–Georgia border. The winner of each division will meet in the Sun Belt Championship game. Since the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS season, the Sun Belt Conference has held a football championship game. As of the 2022–23 NCAA football bowl games , the Sun Belt Conference had tie-ins with the following bowl games: † The Camellia Bowl

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4116-435: The 2023–24 school year. They also announced that the conference would explore adding another women's sport, field hockey, at an undetermined future date. On January 18, 2023, the SBC officially announced that its beach volleyball league would launch that spring, with the four full members sponsoring the sport joined by Charleston , Mercer , UNC Wilmington , and Stephen F. Austin as affiliate members. On August 17, 2023,

4214-456: The Bearcat hockey team and the club rowing team, which produced 2000 and 2004 Olympian Kelly Salchow. Notable Cincinnati Bearcats athletes include Sandy Koufax , Miller Huggins , Oscar Robertson , Jack Twyman , Omar Cummings , Kenyon Martin , Travis Kelce , Jason Kelce , Mary Wineberg and Tony Trabert . The university has four individual and six team championships. The Bearcats won

4312-545: The Bearcats. The UC dance team has won four National Championships from 2004 through 2006 and again in 2009. They are the first team in UC history to capture three consecutive national titles. They remain one of the top dance programs in the country and are the winningest team in University of Cincinnati history. In 2009 the dance team was also selected to represent the United States in the first world dance championships where they won

4410-553: The Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The 14 member institutions of the Sun Belt are distributed across the Southern United States . The Sun Belt Conference was founded on August 4, 1976, with the University of New Orleans , the University of South Alabama , Georgia State University , Jacksonville University , the University of North Carolina at Charlotte , and the University of South Florida . Over

4508-462: The Medical campus. In spring of 2010 the University of Cincinnati was honored by being one of only 13 colleges and universities named by Forbes as one of "The World's Most Beautiful College Campuses". The Japanese Language School of Greater Cincinnati , a supplementary school for Japanese citizens , moved to UC in 1984, and was held in fourteen rooms at Swift Hall. It was scheduled to move to

4606-693: The Metro and Great Midwest conferences began reunification talks that led to the creation of C-USA. However, the Virginia schools filed a lawsuit in order to prevent the merger from happening, which ultimately failed. VCU joined the Colonial Athletic Association , now known as the Coastal Athletic Association . Virginia Tech (which was banking on an invitation to join the Big East Conference )

4704-628: The Metro for the Atlantic Coast Conference , effective on July 1, 1979; and Virginia Tech took its spot. In 1982, Saint Louis left to join the Midwestern Collegiate Conference , now known as the Horizon League ; while the University of Southern Mississippi took its spot in that same year. The University of South Carolina later joined in 1983. In 1985, West Virginia University was in talks to replace Tulane, which had suspended its men’s basketball program due to

4802-546: The Metro, Atlantic 10 , and Big East conferences, but it was not clear if the conference would become a football-sponsoring conference as many of its members did in fact sponsor football but were either independents or belonged to other conferences. The original study plan also included Penn State , which was invited to join the Big Ten on December 15, 1989. Notes: University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati ( UC or Cincinnati , informally Cincy )

4900-489: The Ohio-Miami Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati in 1909. As political movements for temperance and suffrage grew, the university established Teacher's College in 1905 and a Graduate School in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1906. The Queen City College of Pharmacy, acquired from Wilmington College (Ohio) , became the present James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy. In 1962,

4998-689: The SBC officially announced the return of women's swimming and diving as a sponsored sport.  Full members (all sports)   Full members (non-football)   Associate members (football-only)   Associate members (other)  Other Conference Other Conference In addition to the five Sun Belt commissioners, three future league leaders served on the Sun Belt staff prior to becoming conference commissioners, including Doug Elgin (Missouri Valley), John Iamarino (Northeast, Southern), and Tom Burnett (Southland). On October 12, 2011, ESPN reported that Wright Waters would retire, effective July 1, 2012. On February 15, 2012, Karl Benson

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5096-683: The Shriners Hospital for Children. This campus was formerly home to the College of Applied Science . It is roughly 3 miles (4.8 km) from main campus in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati and overlooks the Ohio River . When it merged with the College of Engineering to become the College of Engineering and Applied Science many of the classes were moved to the main campus, but limited courses are still taught there. There

5194-901: The Steger Student Life Center, the divisions overseeing these groups include Club Sports Board, Diversity Education, Greek Life, Leadership Development, Programming, RAPP, Undergraduate Student Government and Graduate Student Government. Other Student Life offices on campus include the African American Cultural & Resource Center, Bearcat Bands (the largest and oldest student group at UC), Early Learning Center, Ethnic Programs & Services, University Judicial Affairs, Resident Education & Development, Wellness Center, and Women's Center. There are several media outlets for university students. The student newspaper, The News Record , has been in production for more than 130 years, taking its current name in 1936. It

5292-643: The Sun Belt Conference sponsors championship competition in nine men's and eleven women's NCAA sanctioned sports. The most recent change to sports sponsorship was the reinstatement of women's swimming & diving in 2023–24. When Marshall was formally introduced as an incoming Sun Belt member, SBC commissioner Keith Gill also announced that the conference would reinstate men's soccer once all new members joined. Men's soccer resumed play in 2022–23 with six full members joined by three associates. Beach volleyball started play with eight members, evenly divided between full members and associates. Member-by-member sponsorship of

5390-645: The Sun Belt Conference. The university joined in all sports except for football starting July 1, 2016, with football joining in 2017. The conference announced on March 1, 2016, that the affiliation agreement with Idaho and New Mexico State would not be extended past the 2017 season. The conference announced that beginning in 2018, the conference (10 teams) would be divided into two divisions for football: East: Appalachian State , Coastal Carolina , Georgia Southern , Georgia State , and Troy ; West: Arkansas State , Louisiana , Louisiana–Monroe , South Alabama , and Texas State . The winner of each division will meet in

5488-487: The Sun Belt in July 2022. They claimed to have notified C-USA of their plans in December 2021, apparently seeking to negotiate a 2022 exit. C-USA had indicated in late January 2022 that it expected the three schools to remain in that league through the 2022–23 school year. Marshall escalated the situation by filing suit against C-USA in its local court in an attempt to force a 2022 move. On March 29, Conference USA agreed to let Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss move to

5586-518: The Sun Belt seven football playing members in their first season, as Arkansas State and Louisiana were already full members which sponsored football. Another Big West school, Utah State University , was added as a football-only member in 2003, then departed in 2005 with Idaho and New Mexico State for the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). In 2004, Troy University became a football-only member before joining for all sports in

5684-506: The Sun Belt starting July 1, 2022. On April 6, with the entrance of three new men's soccer-sponsoring schools in James Madison, Marshall, and Old Dominion, the Sun Belt announced that men's soccer would be reinstated as a sponsored sport. The three aforementioned programs joined current Sun Belt members Coastal Carolina (previously affiliates with Conference USA) as well as Georgia State and Georgia Southern (previously affiliates with

5782-540: The Sun Belt was left with ten full members and only eight members that sponsor football (the minimum number required for a conference to sponsor football at the FBS level) for the 2013 season. Appalachian State University accepted an invitation on March 27, 2013 to join the Sun Belt effective July 1, 2014. Georgia Southern University accepted a similar Sun Belt invitation at the same time as Appalachian State. Appalachian State and Georgia Southern both joined for all sports from

5880-495: The United States to offer a women's studies course, which was taught by Monika Triest and Sylvia Tucker. By an act of the Ohio Legislature , the University of Cincinnati became a state institution in 1977. In 1989, President Joseph A. Steger released a Master Plan for a stronger academy. Over this time, the university invested nearly $ 2 billion in campus construction, renovation, and expansion ranging from

5978-478: The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees voted to accept an invitation for Little Rock to join the Ohio Valley Conference , and UT Arlington, which had been a Western Athletic Conference member in the 2012–13 school year , announced its return to that conference on January 21, 2022. Shortly thereafter, Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss announced that they planned to leave C-USA for

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6076-463: The average high school GPA is 3.7. The interquartile range for SAT scores in math and reading are 570–690 and 580–670 respectively, while the range for ACT scores is 24–29. In its 2025 rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked the university's undergraduate program 152nd (tied) among 436 national universities, and 81st among public national universities. U.S. News also ranks UC fifth for co-ops/internships. Amongst global universities, UC

6174-426: The college's dean when it integrated with the University of Cincinnati in 1896. The College of Medicine is the university's medical school ; it includes a leading teaching hospital and several biomedical research laboratories. In the 1950s Albert Sabin developed the live polio vaccine at the College of Medicine. Diphenhydramine ( Benadryl ) was developed here by George Rieveschl in 1946. UC also established

6272-537: The conference after the 2022–23 school year. Initial plans were for James Madison to compete as a de facto Sun Belt affiliate in sports other than football and men's soccer during the 2022–23 season. However, those plans would eventually change, with JMU and the SBC jointly announcing on February 2, 2022 that JMU would become a full SBC member, including football, in 2022–23. By the end of January 2022, both non-football members would announce their departures for other conferences, effective that July. On December 8, 2021,

6370-432: The conference and would become a full member by 2013. On May 4, 2012, FIU and North Texas announced that they would be leaving the Sun Belt for Conference USA on July 1, 2013 as part of a Conference USA expansion effort involving four other schools. On November 29, 2012, Florida Atlantic and Middle Tennessee State announced that they would also leave the Sun Belt for Conference USA. The move for Florida Atlantic and MTSU

6468-427: The conference folding. These moves would help to establish the market areas for the Sun Belt and The American, which cover similar geographic footprints. The American would now have most of its members in metropolitan areas, while the Sun Belt would instead have its members in smaller college towns . On October 22, The Action Network reported that Southern Miss had been accepted as a new Sun Belt member, with 2023 as

6566-545: The conference's teams, and have been bracketed in a semi-stepladder format. The bottom four seeds play in the first round; seed 5 through 10 receive byes to the second round, and the top 4 seeds to the quarterfinals. All rounds are held in Pensacola, Florida at Pensacola Bay Center since 2022. Winners of the tournaments earn automatic bids to their respective NCAA Division I basketball tournament. The Sun Belt Conference has sponsored an annual baseball tournament to determine

6664-505: The conference. Up until 2009, the conference only had a contract with one bowl, the New Orleans Bowl . Following the Sun Belt's improved football success and geographical membership changes, other bowls began to sign contracts with the Sun Belt Conference. As of October 2021 , the conference had seven bowl game tie-ins ( Cure , Boca Raton , LendingTree , New Orleans , Myrtle Beach , Frisco , and Camellia ) Throughout

6762-427: The day after Marshall named its next president, both the Sun Belt and Marshall issued tweets announcing that school's entry; a formal announcement followed the next day and an introductory press conference was held on November 1. As for James Madison, its board met on October 29 to discuss a potential Sun Belt invitation, but its timeline was also affected by a Virginia state law that requires legislative approval for

6860-699: The fall of 2012, Campus Recreation Center Housing (CRC) was named on The Fiscal Times ' list of "10 Public Colleges with Insanely Luxurious Dorms". Nearly 80% of Uptown Campus incoming freshman students live on campus their first year. In recent years, record freshman classes and increased interest by upperclass students has led to higher demand than supply for on-campus residence halls. To meet this demand, UC Housing and Food Services has added residence halls (Morgens Hall in 2013) and purchased block leases at University Park Apartments, Campus Park Apartments (formerly Sterling Manor), University Edge Apartments, and Stetson Square Apartments near campus. This has pushed

6958-464: The first emergency medicine residency program. In 2008, it became the first medical college in the country to implement the multiple mini interview system for its admission process. The university has two regional campuses: Blue Ash College in Blue Ash, Ohio , and Clermont College in Batavia, Ohio . UC is also the home of the Institute for Policy Research , a multidisciplinary research organization which opened in 1971. The center performs

7056-454: The following colleges: College of Allied Health Sciences, College of Business, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, College of Engineering & Applied Sciences, College of Nursing, and the College of Arts & Sciences. A few majors require freshmen to be in these learning communities. Many of these groups have specialized courses taught by their academic advisor. The Transition and Access Program, which does not lead to

7154-493: The form of Honors Seminars, which are certain three credit-hour courses, Pre-Approved Experiences, which consist of programs the Honors Program has already deemed to meet the requirements of an experience, and Self-Designed Experiences, where students design their own experience plan to submit to the Honors Program for approval. Students are required to complete at least five experiences before graduation. The university

7252-520: The gold medal in all three dance categories. All of the athletic facilities (with the exception of Fifth Third Arena and UC Baseball Stadium) are open 24/7 for student use. Sun Belt Conference The Sun Belt Conference ( SBC ) is a collegiate athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA 's Division I since 1976. Originally a non-football conference, the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001. Its football teams participate in

7350-500: The institution's name to the University of Cincinnati. By 1893, the university expanded beyond its primary location on Clifton Avenue and relocated to its present location in the Heights neighborhood. As the university expanded, the rectors merged the institution with Cincinnati Law School, establishing the University of Cincinnati College of Law . In 1896, the Ohio Medical College joined Miami Medical College to form

7448-617: The institution, which eventually joined with the Cincinnati Law School . In 1858, Charles McMicken died of pneumonia and in his will he allocated most of his estate to the City of Cincinnati to found a university. The University of Cincinnati was chartered by the Ohio legislature in 1870 after delays by livestock and veal lobbyists angered by the liberal arts -centered curriculum and lack of agricultural and manufacturing emphasis . The university's board of rectors changed

7546-407: The integrity and holdings of the university. He focused on the academic master plan for the university, placing the academic programs of UC at the core of the strategic plan. The university invested in scholarships, funding for study abroad experiences, the university's advising program as it worked to reaffirm its history and academy for the future. Neville Pinto is the current and 30th president of

7644-484: The league added former Big West Conference members New Mexico State University and the University of North Texas and former Ohio Valley Conference member (an FBS Independent on football) Middle Tennessee State University as full members (all three of them joined a year earlier for all sports in the 2000-01 school year) and added FBS Independent University of Louisiana at Monroe and Big West member University of Idaho as football-only members. These new members gave

7742-434: The league following the 1991–92 academic year due to a dispute over television rights, among other reasons. Lamar, Texas–Pan American, and Jacksonville departed at the end of the 1997–98 academic year. Florida International University joined the Sun Belt in 1998, and the University of Denver was added in 1999. Louisiana Tech departed after the 2000–01 academic year. The conference did not sponsor football until 2001, when

7840-490: The likely entry date. The report also stated that the Sun Belt would add three more members—the aforementioned Marshall and Old Dominion, plus James Madison University , a member of the FCS Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). Southern Miss and Old Dominion were respectively announced as incoming members on October 26 and 27. At the time, both were to join no later than 2023. On October 29,

7938-434: The most NCAA Division I championships , List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships , and NCAA Division I FBS Conferences For more information see Sun Belt Conference football . For the current season, see 2024 Sun Belt Conference football season . The Sun Belt first began sponsoring football in 2001. It originally consisted of seven football playing schools, three of which are still members of

8036-478: The most beautiful in the world. In the autumn of 2010, the University of Cincinnati maintained its position in green and sustainability initiatives by being named one of only 286 "Green Colleges" by The Princeton Review . The university has received this distinction each year since. UC was the only public university in Ohio and the only university in the Southern Ohio region included on this list. Some of

8134-456: The next ten years the conference would add Western Kentucky University , Old Dominion University , the University of Alabama at Birmingham , and Virginia Commonwealth University . New Orleans was forced out of the league in 1980 due to its small on-campus gymnasium that the conference did not deem suitable for conference competition. New Orleans competed as an independent before joining the newly formed American South Conference in 1987. After

8232-401: The nine men's SBC sports for the 2023–24 academic year. Member-by-member sponsorship of the 11 women's SBC sports for the 2024–25 academic year. "RS" is regular season, "T" is tournament. Championships from the previous academic year are flagged with the calendar year in which the most recent season or tournament ended. The only school to have won a national title while an SBC member

8330-573: The programs that helped achieve this distinction include: a bike share program where UC students can rent bikes from the university, an expanded recycling program, improved and expanded campus transportation options, the addition of vehicle charging stations, fuel pellet use in place of coal, greatly decreased energy and water use throughout campus, and the addition of 6 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified buildings since 2005. In 2007, former university president Nancy Zimpher signed

8428-531: The school's football program to Division I FBS . On November 11, 2009, New Orleans announced it was investigating a move from Division I to the NCAA's Division III . In order to maintain athletic scholarships, UNO instead opted for entry into Division II . On April 20, 2011, UNO officially received transition approval from the NCAA Division II Membership Committee. (UNO later decided to remain in Division I, and joined

8526-541: The student union to a new recreation center to the medical school. It included renovation and construction of multiple buildings, a campus forest, and a university promenade. The plan also includes the Sigma Sigma Commons, which was completed in 1998 as a part of the organization's centennial. Upon her inauguration in 2005, President Nancy L. Zimpher developed the UC21 plan, designed to redefine Cincinnati as

8624-718: The top 5–8% of students, to the University Honors Program. Students admitted into the Honors program typically meet the following qualifications: an ACT composite score of 32 or higher, an SAT score of 1400 or higher (critical reading and math combined), and either an unweighted high school GPA of 3.6 or a weighted high school GPA of 3.8. The program is centered around students taking part in "experiences." Experiences are defined as "fall[ing] within one of five competencies: community engagement, creativity, global studies, leadership, and research." Experiences could take

8722-536: The university. The Uptown campus includes the West, Medical, and Victory Parkway campuses. This is the main campus and includes 62 buildings on 137 acres (0.55 km ) in the Heights neighborhood of Cincinnati. The university moved to this location in 1893. Most of the undergraduate colleges at the university are located on main campus. The exceptions are part of the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center on

8820-580: The university. There is also a television station called UCast. The 48-hour film festival is held each year for the general public. The festival has featured guest speakers and filmmakers including Fraser Kershaw , as well as speakers and artists from Kenyatta University in Nairobi , Kenya . Actors, directors, editors, and composers are showcased at the MainStreet Cinema for students and professionals. Fraternities and sororities have been

8918-523: The years, the conference has experienced flux in membership changes, similar to many other FBS conferences. The conference announced that beginning in 2018, the conference (10 teams after the departure of Idaho and New Mexico State ) would be divided into two divisions for football: East: Appalachian State , Coastal Carolina , Georgia Southern , Georgia State , and Troy ; West: Arkansas State , Louisiana , Louisiana–Monroe , South Alabama , and Texas State . The divisional alignments changed again with

9016-509: Was admitted ten years later, also bringing along Kentucky , the only other men's soccer school in the SEC (coincidentally, Tulane was a longtime SEC member from 1932 until 1966). Until 2021–22 season, South Carolina men's soccer was the last link of the Metro Conference with the reunified Conference USA, although West Virginia, which rejected Metro membership in 1985, was supposed to join Conference USA for men's soccer in 2022 but with

9114-428: Was hired as the new commissioner of the Sun Belt, after having been the commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference for 17 years. Waters would later move his departure date to March 15, allowing Benson to take over at that time. Keith Gill was named the commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference on March 18, 2019. He is the first African American to lead any FBS conference. As of the current 2023–24 school year,

9212-474: Was later renamed the Salute to Veterans Bowl . Football rivalries involving Sun Belt teams include: For the upcoming season, see 2024–25 Sun Belt Conference men's basketball season . This list goes through the 2021–22 season. This list goes through the 2022–23 season. Since the 2022–23 season, the Sun Belt Conference men's and women's basketball tournaments, held in early March, have involved all 14 of

9310-463: Was left out of Conference USA, and joined the Atlantic 10 Conference (it later joined the Big East in 2000 and is now in the Atlantic Coast Conference since 2004). It was joined by Great Midwest member Dayton , which was intrigued by the prospect of playing against regional rival Xavier . Initially, South Carolina was not permitted to participate in Conference USA for men's soccer , although it

9408-453: Was originally scheduled to take place in 2014; however, the two schools announced on January 28, 2013 that they would leave for Conference USA a year early, departing on July 1, 2013 with FIU and North Texas. Western Kentucky also accepted an invitation to join Conference USA on April 1, 2013, and departed from the Sun Belt on July 1, 2014. These moves depleted the Sun Belt and made the need to expand their membership more urgent than ever, as

9506-443: Was placed under the fields and at night water is chilled and then used to air-condition buildings on campus. The storage tank helps the university reach annual energy savings of about $ 1 million. In the fall of 2010, the university began placing "All Recycling" containers throughout campus. This expansion of recycling efforts and receptacles provides a greater opportunity for students, staff, and visitors to participate in recycling

9604-475: Was ranked 210th (tie) of 2,249. The university is divided into 14 colleges and schools: The College of Arts and Sciences is the university's largest college, with 21 departments, eight co-op programs, and several interdisciplinary programs. Winston Koch invented the first electronic organ at the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The College of Law is the alma mater of 27th U.S. president and 10th chief justice William Howard Taft , who also served as

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