Auburn University is the public, land-grant research university for the State of Alabama. With an enrollment of approximately 30,000 students, Auburn offers comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs, both in the arts and sciences and in the professions, including agriculture and natural resources, architecture, business, education, engineering, nursing, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine. Auburn’s undergraduate program is consistently recognized as one of the best at public institutions in the U.S., and Auburn researchers and graduate students work inventively to answer pressing questions in areas such as health, climate, informatics, additive manufacturing, pharmaceutical engineering, and scalable energy. The City of Auburn, located 100 miles southwest of Atlanta, is widely recognized as one of the best places to live and work in the South.