Additionally, the University of Cincinnati offers an excellent benefits package, including comprehensive and affordable healthcare, generous retirement contributions, ample paid leave to support personal wellbeing and flexibility, as well as tuition remission for employees, spouse/domestic partners, and dependents, making for a competitive total compensation package. Home to more than 53,600 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, and over 360,000 living alumni, UC, a Carnegie 1 institution, combines research prowess with a physical setting The New York Times has called "the most ambitious campus design program in the country."