Editing University of Minnesota System (section)

===Twin Cities===
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[[File:University of Minnesota Twin Cities at night.jpg|thumb|Minneapolis Campus at night]]
The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMTC) is the largest with locations in [[Minneapolis]] and neighboring [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]] (actually, the suburb of [[Falcon Heights, Minnesota|Falcon Heights]]).  The locations are connected via a dedicated [[Bus rapid transit|bus transitway]]. The buildings on each campus are connected by a series of [[underground city|tunnel]]s and above-ground [[skyway]]s called [[The Gopher Way]].  The campus is the oldest and largest in the system and has the [[List of United States university campuses by enrollment|ninth-largest]] main campus student body in the United States, with 52,376 students at the start of the 2021–22 academic year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oir.umn.edu/student/enrollment|title=Official Enrollment Statistics|website=Office of Institutional Research|language=en|access-date=April 19, 2022}}</ref>

[[File:University of Minnesota (1875).png|thumb|250px|left|The original University of Minnesota building in Minneapolis, 1875]]
The Minneapolis portion is the largest and has a number of colleges dedicated to a variety of subjects.  The Twin Cities campus located in Minneapolis can be further subdivided into the East Bank (main portion) and West Bank, as the [[Mississippi River]] flows through it.  Students become well-acquainted with the double-decker [[Washington Avenue Bridge (Minneapolis)|Washington Avenue Bridge]] that connects the two sections.  There are a number of distinguished graduate and professional schools on the Minneapolis campus, notably the [[University_of_Minnesota_College_of_Science_and_Engineering|College of Science and Engineering]], [[University of Minnesota Law School]], [[University of Minnesota Medical School|Medical School]], [[Carlson School of Management]], [[University of Minnesota School of Public Health|School of Public Health]], and [[Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs]].  In addition, Minneapolis houses many research facilities such as [[The Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota|The Cancer Center]].

The Twin Cities campus located in St Paul is home to the [[University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences]], [[University of Minnesota College of Design]], and [[University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences]] programs, the [[University of Minnesota School of Social Work]], the College of Veterinary Medicine, and a variety of additional programs and student services. The [[Bell Museum of Natural History]] is also located on the campus in St. Paul.

The [[mascot]] for the Twin Cities campus is [[Goldy Gopher]], and the sports teams are called the [[Minnesota Golden Gophers]]. They participate in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]]'s [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] and the football team participates in the [[NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision|Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS)]]. The majority of the teams compete in the [[Big Ten Conference]], however, the women's [[ice hockey|hockey]] program competes in the [[Western Collegiate Hockey Association]].

Among the graduates from this campus are two former U.S. Vice Presidents, [[Hubert Humphrey]] and [[Walter Mondale]], former [[NAACP]] president [[Roy Wilkins]], British [[Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Deputy Prime Minister]] [[Nick Clegg]], several [[Nobel Prize]] winners, several athletes such as [[Ric Flair]], [[Kevin McHale (basketball)|Kevin McHale]], [[Dave Winfield]], [[Patty Berg]], [[Brock Lesnar]], [[Curt Hennig]], [[Shelton Benjamin]], [[Bobby Jackson (basketball)|Bobby Jackson]] of the NBA, and composer [[Yanni]]. Folksinger [[Bob Dylan]] famously attended the University and was a part of its thriving "West Bank" music scene, but did not graduate.  A wide variety of [[medicine|medical]] and [[technology|technological]] innovations have taken place there as well. For instance, the [[Internet]] [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher protocol]] was created at the Twin Cities campus.  A predecessor of sorts to the [[World Wide Web]], it was named after the school mascot.

Campus media includes the ''[[Minnesota Daily]]'' newspaper, ''[[The Wake Student Magazine]]'', and [[Radio K|770 Radio K]] (KUOM), an [[AM band|AM]] [[radio station]] that is probably the oldest in the state.