Louisville, Kentucky

==Education==

{{See also|List of schools in Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville Free Public Library}}
[[File:Grawhallul.jpg|thumb|[[Grawemeyer Hall]], modeled after the [[Pantheon, Rome|Roman Pantheon]], is the [[University of Louisville]]'s main administrative building.]]
[[File:Picture 154ULMedPlaza.jpg|thumb|Medical Office Plaza on the University of Louisville's downtown Health Sciences Campus]]

Louisville is home to several institutions of higher learning. There are six four-year universities, the [[University of Louisville]], [[Bellarmine University]], [[Boyce College]], [[Spalding University]], [[Sullivan University]] and [[Simmons College of Kentucky]]; [[Louisville Bible College]]; a two-year community college, [[Jefferson Community and Technical College]]; and several other business or technical schools such as [[Spencerian College]], [[Strayer University]] and [[Sullivan College of Technology and Design]]. [[Indiana University Southeast]] is located across the [[Ohio River]] in [[New Albany, Indiana]].

The University of Louisville has had notable achievements including several hand transplants<ref name="hand transplant">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/26/us/doctors-in-louisville-perform-nation-s-first-hand-transplant.html |title=Doctors in Louisville Perform Nation's First Hand Transplant |last=Altman |first=Lawrence K. |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 26, 1999 |access-date=August 8, 2015 |archive-date=June 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613235309/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/26/us/doctors-in-louisville-perform-nation-s-first-hand-transplant.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and the world's first self-contained [[artificial heart]] transplant.<ref name="heart transplant">{{cite news |last=Altman |first=Lawrence K. |title=Self-Contained Mechanical Heart Throbs for First Time in a Human |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/us/self-contained-mechanical-heart-throbs-for-first-time-in-a-human.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 4, 2001 |access-date=August 8, 2015 |archive-date=October 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018192113/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/us/self-contained-mechanical-heart-throbs-for-first-time-in-a-human.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Two major graduate-professional schools of religion are also located in Louisville. The [[Southern Baptist Theological Seminary]], with more than 5,300 students, is the flagship institution of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]. It was founded in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1859 and moved to Louisville in 1877, occupying its present campus on Lexington Road in 1926. [[Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary]], product of a 1901 merger of two predecessor schools founded at [[Danville, Kentucky]] in 1853 and in Louisville in 1893, occupied its present campus on Alta Vista Road in 1963.

According to the [[United States Census|U.S. Census]], of Louisville's population over 25, 21.3% (the national average is 24%) hold a [[bachelor's degree]] or higher and 76.1% (80% nationally) have a [[high school diploma]] or equivalent.

The public school system, [[Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky)|Jefferson County Public Schools]], consists of more than 100,000 students in 173 schools.<ref>{{cite web |title=About JCPS, JCPS at a Glance |url=http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/About/About.html |publisher=[[Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky)|Jefferson County Public Schools]] |access-date=October 5, 2015 |archive-date=October 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006050008/http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/About/About.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Dupont Manual High School ranks 30th in the nation overall for best high schools, and 13th in best magnet high schools.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/kentucky/districts/jefferson-county/dupont-manual-high-8332|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420022338/http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/kentucky/districts/jefferson-county/dupont-manual-high-8332|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 20, 2016|title=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref> Due to Louisville's large [[Catholic Church in the United States|Catholic]] population, there are 27 [[Catholic schools in the United States|Catholic schools]] in the city. The [[Kentucky School for the Blind]], for all of Kentucky's blind and [[visual impairment|visually impaired]] students, is located on Frankfort Avenue in the [[Clifton, Louisville|Clifton]] neighborhood.