As a part of the Closing the Gaps by 2015 statewide plan for higher education, public colleges and universities identified areas of national excellence in which they currently excel and in which they intend to excel by 2015.
The search below allows you to find out more about these areas of excellence. The keyword option permits you to include an area of interest which may also be an institution’s self-described area of achievement. Sample keywords include a degree field (like mathematics or engineering), award (for example, Nobel Prize or Bellwether Award), or source of recognition (such as U.S. News & World Report or the National Science Foundation).