About Sullivan University

Sullivan University is a privately owned university based in Louisville, Kentucky. It is licensed to find the child maintenance for certificates and diplomas, associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission upon Colleges. According to the Kentucky Council, for the 2015–2016 academic year, 40% of Sullivan’s full-time, first-time link degree students conventional their degrees within three years.

Sullivan University currently has instinctive campuses in Louisville, Lexington, Fort Knox, and a learning center in Louisa, Kentucky. Most of the university’s degree programs are also within reach online or in a hybrid format.

Louisville (/ˈluːivɪl/ (listen), US: /ˈluːəvəl/ (listen) LOO-ə-vəl, locally /ˈlʊvəl/ (listen)) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical chair and, since 2003, the nominal chair of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.

Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. With welcoming Falls of the Ohio as the by yourself major obstruction to river traffic amongst the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the deal first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system across 13 states.

Today, the city is known as the house of boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken), the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky’s six Fortune 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands. Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville’s main poster airport, hosts UPS’s worldwide hub.

Since 2003, Louisville’s borders have been the thesame as those of Jefferson County, after a city-county merger. The official name of this consolidated city-county doling out is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, abbreviated to Louisville Metro. Despite the mixture and renaming, the term “Jefferson County” continues to be used in some contexts in hint to Louisville Metro, particularly including the incorporated cities outdoor the “balance” which make occurring Louisville proper. The city’s total consolidated population as of the 2019 census estimate was 766,757. However, the balance total of 617,638 excludes new incorporated places and semiautonomous towns within the county and is the population listed in most sources and national rankings.

The Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes Louisville-Jefferson County and 12 surrounding counties, seven in Kentucky and five in Southern Indiana. As of 2019, the MSA had a population of 1,265,108, ranking 46th nationally.