Welcome to the University
of New Hampshire.
I’m Ferrari St. Paul and you are
stuck with me today.
So let’s go on a tour.
What are you doing?
Come on.
University of New Hampshire
is located in the quintessential
New England college
town of Durham.
I’m gonna check it out
with my friend Beth here,
we’re gonna grab some coffee.
What do you do around here?
Like, where are we?
We’re on Main Street.
This is it, it’s just pretty
much from there to there.
This is actually one of
my favorite places to be
on campus, Breaking New Grounds.
It’s good to hang out,
but it’s also,
I come to study here too,
it's nice to get out of
the dorm room every once
in a while and take a break
from the library
and study on, you know,
right here in the coffee shop.
It’s a gorgeous campus
in a gorgeous setting,
so, um, that’s a real plus.
And the locale,
it’s a small town,
but it’s very close
to other, you know...
The historic town of Portsmouth
is nearby, twenty minutes away,
Boston’s only a little
over an hour away.
You can be to the ocean
in twenty minutes,
but you can be up in
the mountains in an hour.
So the location,
location, location.
And if you think you might want
to venture outside of UNH,
there’s an Amtrak train station
right on campus.
Both Boston and Portland, Maine
are just an hour ride away.
New Hampshire has about
12,000 undergraduates
from 43 countries and about
57% of the student body
is from within the state.
85% of classes have
less than 50 students,
only 6% have more than 100,
and the student to faculty ratio
is 18:1.
Approximately 75% of
students enrolling into
the University of New Hampshire
rank in the top 30%
of their high school
graduating class.
In-state tuition and fees
is roughly $12,000 a year,
out-of-state tuition and fees
is about $25,500,
and the average room
and board will cost a student
close to $9,000.
UNH offers over 100 majors
across five bachelor degree
schools and colleges,
as well as the Thompson School,
a two year
associate degree program
that combines a traditional
learning environment
with hands-on opportunities.
We do a lot of hands-on
stuff, it’s really cool.
Everything from projects
building race cars to,
you know, wind tunnels and all
kinds of really, really cool
hands-on stuff
that teaches us a lot.
Mechanical engineering students
have a pretty sweet gig.
They get to use the skills
they develop in the classroom
to construct these racecars.
And then they get to
take it on the road!
Which they didn’t let me do.
But they get to take it on
the road and compete against
other schools in the country.
Some favorites are liberal arts,
English, communications,
political science,
business administration,
psychology, and biology.
One of my most popular
classes is a course
on the New Hampshire primary.
So every four years we have
this big political circus here
in New Hampshire.
And I have students who
work on campaigns,
we bring in
political candidates,
we bring in operatives from
the top levels of campaigns
so they can meet these people,
hear them, go out and actually
get their hands dirty
in the political world,
and take advantage of that
opportunity that they have
in New Hampshire that
really isn’t available
anywhere else in the country.
The University of New Hampshire
employs 630 full time
faculty members,
and 84% hold their doctorate
or terminal degree.
I have a lot of close
relationships with professors
and they’re looking for you
to do well, they challenge you.
They challenge you a lot.
But if you have the motivation
and, you know,
are willing to put the work in,
you can do really well
and do great things.
New Hampshire Wildcats
compete at the Division I level.
Right now we’re in the Whit,
where the men’s ice hockey team
faces off.
And this handsome
fellow right here,
he’s a regular at home games.
When the Wildcats
score their first goal,
fans throw fish onto the ice.
Whooo!
There’s a lot of variety at UNH
when it comes to dorm living,
with 28 residence halls
from large to small
learning environments,
themed options, suites,
and apartment style.
Depending on your
interests and your major
you can pick a certain
residence hall,
and especially as
an incoming freshman,
I think it’s really important
to live in the residence hall
because that’s where you get
most of your college friends at
and the floor community
is just so close.
They do a lot of fun
activities together,
they study together.
There are more than
200 clubs and organizations
at UNH from fine arts
to politics, or go Greek.
There are clubs starting from a
cooking club to a knitting club,
to people who just read
poetry, theater club.
So any of your interests,
they can be accommodated.
UNH is also expected to be the
first university in the nation
to receive a majority
of its power from
a renewable resource.
The landfill gas project,
ECOLine,
will pump methane gas
from a landfill 13 miles north
to power UNH’s
cogeneration plant.
If you’re concerned
about the environment,
you’ll fit right in at UNH.
It's the first land
grant university
with an organic
dairy research farm.
Isn't that right?
Yes, we like it.
Are you “udderly” over
the college search?
Stress no more.
Empower yourself
and fill out an application
for the University of
New Hampshire today.
Well I’m just relaxing
and enjoying the end
of our crazy fun day here at
the University of New Hampshire
here in College Woods,
a great place for students
to walk, relax, snowshoe,
or read a book, as I’m doing.
So I’m gonna get back to this.
I’ll see you later.
