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The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant[a] research university in Paradise, Nevada. The 332-acre 

 campus is about 1.6 mi (2.6 km) east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969. It includes the Shadow Lane Campus, just east of the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, which houses both School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine. UNLV's law school, the William S. Boyd School of Law, is the only law school in the state.

It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[6] According to the National Science Foundation, UNLV spent $83 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 165th in the nation.[