About Provo, Utah

Located in the midst of the beautiful Rocky Mountains, Utah is full of unique scenery and home to Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks. Utah is known as the "Crossroads of the West," and has become a center for business and culture. Utah has professional basketball, hockey, and baseball teams, and great college sports as well. Salt Lake City, capital of Utah and near Provo, was selected to host the 2002 Winter Olympics. Several Olympic competitions were held in Provo.

Provo is home to one of America's most well known private universities—Brigham Young University—and has a college town atmosphere. It is the perfect environment for foreign students to acquire the skills they need to succeed. Here are just a few of the reasons why:

Safe
Provo's crime rates per 100,000 population are well below the national average. Most impressively, Provo's violent crimes index is more than 80% below the national average.

Consistently High National Rankings
Over the past ten years, Provo has consistently ranked high in Money Magazine's list of best places to live the U.S. Averaged over ten years, Provo is still America's most livable city. In addition, our community also received the following designations recently:

• Sperling's Best Places - names Provo/Orem as the top spot for the least stressful mid-sized community in the nation.
  
• USA Weekend - Brigham Young University rated #1 "Students Pray on a Regular Basis" by Princeton Review
• Self - Provo/Orem named #2 in healthiest cities for women
  
• INC. Magazine - Provo ranked #1 for new businesses. Provo topped the INC. List of TopCities Per Capita, averaging 18.4 entrepreneurial companies per million residents.
  
• Forbes Magazine - Provo ranked #6 in the "Best Places for Business and Careers"
  
• 2001 State Rankings by Morgan Quitno Press lists Utah in the Top Ten for the following:
  1. Most Livable State
  2. Percentage of population graduated from high school
  3. Job growth rate
  
  

Highly Educated People
Education is very important in Utah, and Provo has one of the highest concentrations in the U.S. of people who can speak a foreign language.

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