The University of New England (UNE) is a private research university in Biddeford, Maine, United States. The university has additional campuses in Portland, Maine, and Tangier, Morocco. It traces its historical origins to 1831, when Westbrook Seminary opened on what is now the Portland Campus for the Health Sciences. UNE is the largest independent university in Maine and the largest educator of health care professionals for Maine. It is organized into seven colleges that combine to offer more than 80 undergraduate, graduate, online, and professional degrees. The university is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High Research Activity" and New England's top institutions for student earning potential by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.