The school has excellent teaching and resources, with 3,500 teaching staff and more than 20,000 students. They come from 50 states in the United States and more than 80 countries in the world. Foreign students account for 5% of the total number of students, 76% are studying for a bachelor's degree, 80% live on campus, and others study through distance education. The school has 8 colleges, 45 departments, more than 230 undergraduate majors, 89 master majors and 37 doctoral majors. The library of this school has 1, 326,000 volumes and 1, 3,979 periodicals.
The business school of this school is one of the oldest business schools in the United States, and it has been rated as one of the best business schools in the United States by the National Association of Business Schools for its excellent undergraduate and postgraduate education. USU is one of the two universities in Utah, and it is also the main research and academic center in Utah. It is internationally renowned for its outstanding contributions in various research fields.