Founded in 1875,
Brigham Young University is sponsored by
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
BYU is part of the LDS Church Educational System, which serves more than one million people worldwide in higher education, seminaries and institutes, elementary and secondary schools, and continuing education and literacy programs. The system includes the BYU campus in
Provo, Utah; the BYU-Hawaii campus in
Laie, Hawaii;
Ricks College (now
BYU-Idaho) in
Rexburg, Idaho; the LDS Business College in
Salt Lake City; and elementary or secondary schools in many countries, including
Mexico,
Fiji,
New Zealand,
Tonga, and
Western Samoa.
BYU is located 45 miles south of Salt Lake City in Provo, Utah. A city of 110,000, Provo is situated 4,560 feet above sea level. The campus sits at the western base of the
Wasatch Mountains, part of the
Rocky Mountain Range. Utah Valley offers a beautiful setting for a population of more than 340,000, with 11,750-foot
Mount Timpanogos on the east and 23-mile-long
Utah Lake on the west.
As a matter of
personal commitment, students, staff, and faculty of BYU are expected to demonstrate in daily living on and off campus those
moral virtues encompassed in the gospel of
Jesus Christ. These include being
honest, living a
chaste and virtuous life, obeying the law and university policy,
respecting others, observing the Church's
Word of Wisdom (which includes abstaining from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee, and substance abuse), and supporting others in their commitment to comply with the BYU Honor Code.
Directly quoted from the Fact File on BYU's official website http://www.byu.edu