Southern Utah University is one of the premier regional public universities in the country, with the second lowest tuition among the nation’s elite 100 Best College Buys and the very best in academics, ranking in the top tier of the West’s colleges and universities for academic excellence. Nicknamed Utah’s “public-private university,” the SUU experience, while affordable, is defined by the personalized attention, hands-on experiential learning, undergraduate research opportunities, and supportive, collaborative campus community generally thought to exist only among private institutions with much higher tuition rates.