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The University is composed of different colleges, each of which offers many different courses of study. These include the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS), College of Liberal Arts (COLA), College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, School of Health and Human Services , Thompson School of Applied Science, Whittemore School of Business and Economics, and the UNH Graduate School.
The coastal proximity of the school affords excellent programs in areas such as Marine Biology and OceanographyOceanography (also called oceanology and marine science ) is the study of the earth's oceans and their interlinked ecosystems and chemical and physical processes. There are five major divisions within the science: biological oceanography (also sometimes c.
The school's athletic teams, known as Wildcats, compete in the NCAAThe National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA often said "en-see-double-ay") is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in t Division I America East ConferenceThe America East Conference is a College Athletic Conference whose members are located mainly on the East Coast of the United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I. Member Schools There are ten schools with full membership: Universi for most sports; the Division I-AA Atlantic Ten ConferenceThe Atlantic 10 Conference (A10) is a college athletic conference which operates mostly in the eastern United States; it also has two member schools in Ohio. It participates in the NCAA's Division I-AA for football and Division I for all other sports. for footballAmerican football known in the United States simply as football is a competitive team sport that rewards players' speed, agility, skill, tactics, and brute strength as they run and throw a ball, and block, tackle, and outrun each other, trying to force th; and Hockey EastHockey East is a college athletic conference which operates in New England. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. There are currently 10 member schools; the men's division of Hockey East has nine members, while the women's, also Division I.