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The University of Minnesota Crookston (UMC) is a four-year university located in Crookston, Minnesota. With 1,874 undergraduate students, it is one of five campuses in the University of Minnesota system. Currently, students from more than 20 countries and 45 states are enrolled (Fall 2015).
Located on the northern edge of Crookston, Minnesota, off U.S. Highway 2, the 108-acre campus 237-acre including research plots of the Northwest Research and Outreach Center) is situated in the Red River Valley, the center of a large agricultural region. The region is the transition point from the forested areas of the east to the great plains of the Dakotas.
The University of Minnesota Crookston uses the marketing slogan "Small Campus. Big Degree," meant to highlight the small-campus environment and the University of Minnesota system degree that the university offers.