Kansas State University

Kansas State University (sometimes referred to as K-State) is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas.

Academics

Kansas State has an enrollment of approximately 19,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students. The university has 60 academic departments in nine colleges: Agriculture; Architecture, Planning, and Design; Arts and Sciences; Business Administration; Education; Engineering; Human Ecology; Technology and Aviation; and Veterinary Medicine. The A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communication is located within the college of arts and sciences and the graduate school offers nearly 100 master programs and nearly 50 doctorate programs.

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Agriculture - Architecture - Arts and Sciences - Business Administration - Education - Engineering - Human Ecology - Technology - Aviation - Veterinary Medicine - Journalism - Mass Communication

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In 1991, the former Kansas Technical Institute in Salina, Kansas was merged with Kansas State University by an act of the Kansas legislature. The College of Technology and Aviation is now located at the Salina campus.

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1991 - Kansas Technical Institute - Salina, Kansas - Kansas

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Since 1986, Kansas State has added over 2 million square feet (186,000 m²) of buildings, including a new library, art museum and plant sciences building. Enrollment has generally been between 21,000 and 24,000 since 1988. Solid, progressive research is conducted in agronomy, biosciences, electrical engineering, food science and the social sciences. K-State has a strong endowment program and has established alumni associations nationwide. Kansas State ranks first nationally among state universities in its total of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall scholars since 1986. K-State is known for its distinguished lecture series: Landon Lecture, Lou Douglas Lecture, Huck Boyd Lecture and Dorothy Thompson Civil Rights series.

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Research - Agronomy - Bioscience - Electrical engineering - Food science - Social science

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