Kansas State University

Kansas State University is a public land-grant university in Manhattan, Kansas. It opened in 1863 as Kansas State Agricultural College under the Morrill Act and is the state's first land-grant institution. The main campus sits in the Flint Hills; the university also operates a Polytechnic Campus in Salina and a graduate campus in Olathe in the Kansas City area.

Colleges include agriculture, architecture planning and design, arts and sciences, business, education, engineering, health and human sciences, and veterinary medicine. Graduate work is strongest in agriculture, grain science, veterinary medicine, engineering, and animal and plant biosecurity. The Biosecurity Research Institute and the adjacent National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility shape research in food-animal disease and agricultural security.

Enrollment is about 20,000 students, including several thousand graduate students and a modest international cohort from dozens of countries. The faculty includes a full college of veterinary medicine. Alumni include U.S. Senator Jerry Moran, journalist Scott Pelley, and actor Eric Stonestreet.

Graduate degrees include master's awards, the PhD, and the DVM. Research students typically join a faculty laboratory or departmental program on a semester calendar. Assistantships and U.S. Department of Agriculture and other federal training grants are common in agriculture and the sciences. Manhattan is a college town; some applied graduate students also work at Olathe.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Kansas State University lists 4 graduate programs across 4 subjects: 1 master's program and 3 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in accounting, computer science and health & medical sciences.