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University of Idaho

875 Perimeter Dr, Moscow, ID

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The University of Idaho, founded in 1889, is the state's original land-grant flagship university, and its natural resources and forestry programs benefit directly from the university's location amid some of the most significant forested and wilderness land in the American West. The university's engineering and agricultural programs reflect its land-grant founding mission, and Idaho's College of Law, the state's only law school, gives students unusually direct access to Idaho's legal profession and judiciary. The university's Moscow, Idaho campus, set in the fertile Palouse farming region, gives its agricultural science programs direct access to one of the most productive wheat and legume-growing areas in the country. The university's combination of genuine natural resources research strength and its status as Idaho's sole law school has made it central to both the state's higher education system and its forestry and agricultural economy.

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