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The UNLV Rebels football program is a college football team that represents the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The team is a member of the Mountain West Conference, which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) conference of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA).

More than 400 Rebels compete in the NCAA Division I as a member of the Mountain West Conference, in 16 sports.

The UNLV Rebels men's soccer team represents the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in all NCAA Division I men's college soccer competitions.

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Coach Jerry Tarkanian's legacy lives on at the UNLV campus along with the National Championship win that was more than three decades ago.

In the early 1970s, a group of African-American student-athletes voiced objection to the Confederate imagery surrounding the mascot. Campus leaders agreed, and in 1976, the student senate voted to officially banish Beauregard and thereby remove the association of the Confederacy with UNLV.

The University of Nevada has 15 major academic units and after being noted for its strong emphasis on science and technology, business management, and the law programs, the university is classified a "research-intensive university" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

The most popular majors at University of Nevada, Las Vegas include: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Psychology; Health Professions and Related Programs; Social Sciences; Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; ...

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UNLV is a premier metropolitan research institution and is ranked as one of the nation's most diverse universities by U.S. News & World Report.

UNLV Walk-On Tryouts. The prospect must be currently enrolled in at least 12 Credits and attach a current UNLV schedule. The prospect must have at least a 2.3 GPA at UNLV.

What is the acceptance rate at UNLV? ›

85.3% (2022)

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

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UNLV named itself the Rebels in the 1950s, ostensibly to highlight the new school's “rebellion” against Northern Nevada and UNR. The nickname took on a more political slant in the 1960s when the sports programs adopted a mascot that was a wolf (named Beauregard, after Confederate general P.G.T.

Before founding Death Row Records, Knight played college football at UNLV as a defensive end. He briefly played in the NFL for the Los Angeles Rams as a replacement player during the 1987 NFL players strike.